On 2016-03-10 21:47, Lester Caine wrote:
> On 10/03/16 20:31, Dimitry Sibiryakov wrote:
>>    Can anyone remember what problem uppercased names was supposed to 
>> solve?
>>    If name contain letters from different languages, which locale 
>> could be used for such
>> conversion?
>>    I tried to create database named "Это čeština" and Firebird 
>> failed because of call
>> file_name.upper() in ISC_expand_filename().
>
> It's compliant with the SQL spec? The problem on PHP is their
> 'convention' of using lower case, but the standard is nice and clean 
> on
> how upper case is handled? Then expecting the lower case to match is 
> the
> problem?

I think it is very likely similar reasoning is applied: making the 
database name case insensitive on all platforms.

Mark

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