[tex-live] filename clash (upper/lower case)
David Kastrup
dak at gnu.org
Wed Jan 17 00:46:53 CET 2007
Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> writes:
> Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>
>> > but case sensitive systems are an even more pain ... esp since
>> > they assume that the users are case sensitive (which, if i see
>> > what many-parties files we have do deal with here many users
>> > aren't) ... actually space-sensitive is even worse
>>
>> But the world is moving towards UTF-8. How should this work on a
>> system which does not even support ASCII properly?
>>
>>
> afaik windows is unicode below the surface so the problem is not in
> the operating system; it's user dicipline which counts;
User discipline can't change that the lowercase letter for `I' is `i'
in Germany, `ı' in Turkey, and the uppercase for `i' is `I' in
Germany, `İ' in Turkey. That is not the only problematic code point,
I guess.
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