Re: Re: Case sensitivity

> 2005/5/26, Simon Taylor <simontaylor1-XZoyATsUNX5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
> > Bit off-topic, but is Haiku (bfs) always going to be case-insensitive? 
> 
> You mean sensitive, right? And I hope so; crippling the FS is no go.
> Really. Putting this kind of semantics on a FS is silly.

Oh yeh, I mean sensitive of course :S

And I don't think it's silly - I would expect jobapplication.doc to contain the same stuff as JobApplication.doc, it just seems more natural that way.

> > From a human perspective I think case insensitivity can be annoying - I know there's a file I want in the files/development/ folder, but can't remember if it's files/Development or Files/development or whatever. It often takes me a few guesses to get the path right due to capitalisation issues.
> 
> tcsh has an autocomplete option to match filenames/directories in an
> insensitive manner; I believe bash has such feature as well.
> 
> (Alas, I *really* love tcsh as a shell. But bash's script syntax is
> much easier in the eyes...)

I try to avoid the shell as much as possible. Other things need paths specified too.

I'm kinda thinking of newbies here. I know was initially confused when I was told "jobapplication.doc" not found when I could see it full well in the Tracker.
 
> > Does bfs support UTF8 filenames? In that case, I suppose the whole concept of case is a bit difficult to define.
> 
> bfs is defined to store file names and directories in UTF-8, and this
> is one of the reasons why BeOS is/was so popular among the Japanese.

Yeh, thought so. The concept could just be defined for plain ascii and not for any other languages, but I know what Axel's like on clean implementations...
 
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