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David Hagood <david.hagood@gmail.com> schrieb/wrote:
> If you have 2 entities in a directory which have names differing only
> in case, e.g. "foo" and "FOO", under a REAL operating system with case
> sensitive file system semantics, this is no problem. However, under
> Windows and their wonderful "Case preserving but case insensitive"
> semantics, "FOO" and "foo" would be the same file,...

Mac OS X has the same problem.

Further, it does not preserve the Unicode normalisation form.

Claus