Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:33:16 +1100 | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity |
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On Tuesday February 17, tridge@samba.org wrote: > > I also think that if the choice were given then some linux distros > (the likes of Lindows comes to mind) would choose to run all processes > case-insensitive. These sorts of distros are aiming at the sorts of > users that would want everything to be case-insensitive.
This is the bit I don't understand.
Surely the value of case-insensitivity is that you can type in a filename from memory and not worry about what case you used when you created the file.
Yet with Lindows / MS-Windows style interfaces, you virtually never type the name of a pre-existing file. So case-insensitivity doesn't seem to be a win to the user.
I thought the value of a case-insensitive filenames was for legacy applications which have been written to the WIN32 API and took lots of liberties with "pretty-casing" filenames between readdir and open.
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