Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm (fwd)
Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm (fwd)
- Subject: Re: Case-sensitivity in Terminal.app and X11 xterm (fwd)
- From: David Brown <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:51:24 -0800
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:17:38AM -0800, Sean Ahern wrote:
> > After a few hours you will wish that all file systems were case
> > insensitive!!
Unix is actually kind of the rare bird in having a case sensitive
filesystem. Once Unicode entered the picture, though, it made life much
easier in Unix-land. Since it is case insensitive, it doesn't really
matter what the Unicode string is. Once you try to do a
case-insensitive comparison with Unicode strings...
The case sensitivity is heavily influenced by C. Many other languages
don't have case sensitive identifiers. In fact, case-insensitivity to
names was given as a requirement for Ada.
I'm actually only bothered by the one application I have that doesn't
work with case-insensitive filenames. It is on their todo list to fix
it, but since I can mount a small UFS partition to use the program, it
isn't a high priority.
Dave
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