@Bulb said in Case (in)?sensitive filesystems are :
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
What's lowercase AE? ä or ae? Could be either. Same goes for SS -> ss or ß.
This is not really a big problem. A "case-insensitive" filesystem that does not treat
ä
as equivalent toae
andß
as equivalent toss
won't really offend most Germans. However a filesystem that treatsI
andi
as equivalent will offend Turks, because for them,i
is only equivalent toİ
andI
is equivalent toı
.
Case insensitivity is inherently localized. So either the filesystem or the filename (or both) store the locale, or it cannot be done in a meaningful way.