From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 2026-01-06, The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
   > It was Mac OS-x where all filenames were in upper case, until they   
   > allowed lower case too...   
   >   
   >   ..whereupon no program at all would then work and the use of 'strings'   
   > revealed why. The same application would randomly use upper, lower or   
   > camel case to refer to the same filename...safe in the certain knowledge   
   > that the OS would translate it all to upper case. Except when it didn't.   
      
   This is a big problem when writing programs for Windows and Linux.   
   Windows is "Case Preserving" (allowing upper and lower case mixed names,   
   but displaying them the way they were created) while Linux/eFS4   
   requires full match on file names. When accessing Linux files from   
   Windows, matches the Windows behavior. I REALLY wish that I could   
   get the Windows behavior as a mount option in Linux, but apparently   
   it is considered an unsurmountable problem that non-European languages   
   / alphabets do not have the simple (mostly 1-1) relationship between   
   upper-case and lower-case, so to do the "right" thing would require   
   adding locale complexity in the file system. ("Is the mapping per-user   
   or systemwide?", "What to do with ligatures?", etc).   
      
   I wonder how Windows deals with that - Do they just limit the   
   case-matching to UTF-8 characters from the European subset?   
      
   --   
   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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