On Friday 22 February 2013 20:57:37 Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> But case-insensitivity is chauvinistic, at least as Windows 7 implements
> it. While Win 7 balked when I tried to create Cat and CAT in the same
> directory, it cheerfully let me create both матрёшка and МАТРЁШКА.
> So, whether you enjoy the benefits or bear the burden (as some see it)
> of case-sensitivity depends on whether your modal alphabet is Latin
> or Cyrillic. It's so unfair! Someone ought to complain. Or is there
> perhaps a Russian localization of Windows which makes Cyrillic filenames
> case-insensitive and Latin case-sensitive? (But think of the consequences
> for portability!)
Be careful what you ask for; they might fix it exactly the opposite way
from
the way you would like it to be. :-)
Leslie
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