On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:06:01 +0100 Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 21 April 2010 11:58, Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> wrote:
As such legacy fades (however slowly), should we *increase* the amount of code that deals with it, or should we move on?
It's not clear to me that it's all "legacy". I had the impression that MacOS used a case insensitive filesystem - is that right?
Half right: MacOS has a couple of native file systems, and they can all be either case-sensitive or case-insensitive. Most Mac applications now work correctly on case-sensitive file systems, so you can safely make all your Mac file systems case-sensitive, which wasn't always the case. If you're using unix software - well, it's not all case-insensitive friendly. zfs file systems - used on Solaris and BSD, and available though orphaned for MacOS - also consider case sensitivity optional.
Certainly, I know that MacOS uses Unicode normalisation, so simple string comparison is definitely not correct. (I only use MacOS as an example to avoid the assumption that this is a Windows-only issue - there are also case-insensitive filesystems available for Unix in general, if nothing else SMBFS).
Unicode normalization is an option for zfs file systems. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org