On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:57:55 -0500, Jay Maynard <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have this argument periodically with Eric Raymond. He swears up and down >that it matters in languages other than English, especially when there are >no single ways to translate upper to lower case or vice versa as in some >languages. Personally, I think case sensitivity is a botch, because people >just don't think they're different. Yeah, lots of alphabets don't have case. What do you do there? Arabic I think has four forms of each letter. (I may be waaaay wrong, but that is my recollection.) Do you treat all four as equivalent? Personally -- I know, heresy in this forum -- I like what Windows does: filename case is preserved on creation and displayed on listing but search is case-insensitive. So if I create a file called MyCamelCaseFileName then a directory list shows it that way but I can open it as mycamelcasefilename or MYCAMELCASEFILENAME or any other similar variant (including the original, of course). Kind of the best of both worlds IMHO. I have no idea what Windows does with alphabets without the concept of case. What do "tolerant" (non-case-sensitive) file systems do with accented letters? In French Windows, do you have to get the accents right when specifying a filename? In German Windows filenames, is u without an umlaut the same as u with an umlaut? What about ue? Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
