Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

Tim Connors
2004-02-17T05:25:47Z

tridge@samba.org said on Tue, 17 Feb 2004 15:12:06 +1100:
> Given how much pain the "kernel is agnostic to charset encoding"
> attitude has cost me in terms of programming pain, I thought I should
> de-cloak from lurk mode and put my 2c into the UTF-8 issue.
>
> Personally I think that eventually the Linux kernel will have to
> embrace the interpretation of the byte streams that applications have
> given it,

What applications?

> despite the fact that this will be very painful and
> potentially quite complex. The reason is that I think that eventually
> the Linux kernel will need to efficiently support a userspace policy
> of case-insensitivity and the only way to do case-insensitive filename
> operations is to interpret those byte streams as a particular
> encoding.
>
> Personally I much prefer the systems I use to be case-sensitive, but
> there are important applications that require case-insensitivity for
> interoperability.

Why? Sounds pretty idiotic to me.

If you don't like it, using some microshit filesystem like vfat. I'll
keep using ext3 etc, thanks.

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