Re: Renaming files on win32

Julian Reschke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.eyebrowse.user,gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gili wrote:
>>Then there's the horrible issue of broken tools changing file case on 
>>you behind your back (this tends to happen too often on Windows), 
>>usually after some version of the file has alrealy been committed. SVN 
>>could detect this change locally, but because of the OS/FS/locale 
>>dependencies I mentioned above, we must find a way to do this /without/ 
>>using strcasecmp. (Why? Because SVN uses UTF-8 internally, and there's 
>>no locale-independent case-folding function).
> 
> 
> 	Java has a local-independant case-folding function. Why can't
> Subversion's portability layer provide the same sort of thing?

How do you know it's the same one used by Windows and OSX?

Julian

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