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- The discussion has been interesting and has brought up some topics,
- such as what case insensitivity means in non-English languages, that
- many of the readers were evidently unaware of. However, it's getting
- a bit out of hand.
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- IEEE P1003.1 is interested in promoting portability of applications
- by defining a UNIX-like operating system interface. Any major change
- from a feature of *every* variant of UN*X, such as case-sensitive
- file names (really, filenames as uninterpreted byte strings), needs
- major justification before being considered. So further assertions
- of the form "I want it because I like it" are not of interest. It
- would be most interesting to see the results of a survey on user
- reaction to case sensitivity or insensitivity, but this newsgroup
- isn't the place to conduct such a survey, and it's not clear that
- the results would be relevant to 1003.1 anyway (what does case
- mean in Japanese or Finnish)?
-
- So, unless you've got something new to say on this subject, please
- let's go on to something else.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 7, Number 27
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