Re: rename is idiotic (was Re: VFAT rename)

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Fri, 21 May 1999 03:17:23 +0200

On Mon, May 17, 1999 at 05:52:07PM -0400, R. Kelley Cook wrote:
> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not
> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for
> interpreting words in any human language.

Thanks, but do you happen to know anything besides english? Quite a few
languages differentiate meaning by case sometimes, german is an example
(the ambiguity is easily resolved, but still there is).

However, the biggest problem is that the kernel does not have a
well-defined definition of "case" at all. It works for english, maybe for
german, but it does not work for devengari.

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