On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 at 16:54, Paul Gilmartin < 00000014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
> On 8/26/25 11:55, Phil Smith III wrote: > >> Think of 52 different characters, not two typographic variants of 26 > characters. > > Um. You seem to be suggesting that case-sensitivity is A Good Thing. I > have yet to find anyone who can justify that position, though many *IX > people assert it--and then basically just say "It's good" without any > justification. > > ... > > For all its warts, Windows got this one right, IMHO. > > ... > Some people use similar rhetoric about diacritical > marks, that they should be inconsequential. But > if you ask a Hispanophone, "¿Cuántos años tienes?" > Ir's impolite to omit the accents. > In French "porc salé" is not at all the same as "porc sale". Does Windows honor the distinction? > I just tried both the above, and it does allow accented and unaccented file names to exist in the same directory (though it won't allow the ? even thought the ¿ is fine). And those names seem to survie sharing in OneDrive. But Sharepoint is a whole 'nuther story, where they seem to have regressed the Windows naming scheme by muddling the file/directory namespace with that of URLs. Tony H.
