Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Eder Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Case Insensitive File Systems -- Torvalds Hates Them Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:18:36 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: <87tt679y8z.fsf@eder.anydns.info> References: <20250428080014.0000347f@gmail.com> <20250428111242.00007426@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 10:31:02 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="95fbd5522826b2c5ec3e0816955b3cae"; logging-data="1468016"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+ZTAgbTnFgpCK+I+tPpwal" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9r2gbbapFdexZgptOGddMi2283c= sha1:Z5LdCHZ1xTPS9p6hO5jxHaWgs+E= Bytes: 2040 On Mo 28 Apr 2025 at 18:56, Farley Flud wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:12:42 -0700, John Ames wrote: > >> >> Just so, it seems to me. Of course it's many years too late for *nix to >> course-correct on this, but it was a stupid design decision in 1970 and >> it remains stupid now. Well, such is the nature of things in this vale >> of sin and tears... >> > > Case insensitivity was only idiotic at the beginning, but now, in the > age of Unicode, it is supremely idiotic. > > Consider the German "sharp s," which I cannot enter as UTF-8 here. > > But the lower case sharp s maps into TWO DIFFERENT upper case chars: > and "SS," e.g. STRASSE or . You mean either ß -> ẞ or ß -> SS don't you? 'Andreas -- ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam