Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

From: Robin Rosenberg
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 16:13:20 EST


On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17.57, Linus Torvalds wrote:
[case-insanesititvity proposal ///]
> See where I'm going? Would this be acceptable to you? Are there any samba
> people who are knowledgeable about the VFS-layer and have the time/energy
> to try something like this?

So the same guy that strongly insist that a file is a string of bytes and nothing else,
now thinks it is sane to even think of "case" of a byte. That's impossible unless you
actually DO believe its a bunch of characters. What is it?

-- robin
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