Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

[Ville Herva]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 04:20:26PM -0800, you [Linus Torvalds] wrote:
> 
> This is but one reason why I will _refuse_ to make case insensitivity
> magically start happening on regular "open()" etc calls.
> 
> You'd literally have to use a _different_ system call to do a 
> case-insensitive file open. 

Tongue-in-cheek:

  int Open(const char *pathname, int flags); ?




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