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SubjectRe: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity


On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> That's not my problem. That is _your_ problem, and I don't care. I
> disagree violently with the notion that we would push this down to a
> filesystem level.
>
> Sorry, but there are limits to how much we care about broken operating
> systems.

Side note: this only matters for cold cache entries anyway, so I doubt
you'll see any performance improvement on a file server from passing the
brain damage down to the lower levels.

And I bet the performance advantages of _not_ doing native case
insensitivity are likely to dominate hugely.

Linus
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