Messages in this thread | | | From | Tim Connors <> | Subject | Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:25:38 +1100 |
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tridge@samba.org said on Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:12:06 +1100: > Given how much pain the "kernel is agnostic to charset encoding" > attitude has cost me in terms of programming pain, I thought I should > de-cloak from lurk mode and put my 2c into the UTF-8 issue. > > Personally I think that eventually the Linux kernel will have to > embrace the interpretation of the byte streams that applications have > given it,
What applications?
> despite the fact that this will be very painful and > potentially quite complex. The reason is that I think that eventually > the Linux kernel will need to efficiently support a userspace policy > of case-insensitivity and the only way to do case-insensitive filename > operations is to interpret those byte streams as a particular > encoding. > > Personally I much prefer the systems I use to be case-sensitive, but > there are important applications that require case-insensitivity for > interoperability.
Why? Sounds pretty idiotic to me.
If you don't like it, using some microshit filesystem like vfat. I'll keep using ext3 etc, thanks.
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