Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 1999 18:05:56 +0200 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: rename is idiotic (was Re: VFAT rename) |
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On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:07:25AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> "R. Kelley Cook" <KCook@IBM.net> writes: > > |> Spoken as a true C programmer. However you are wrong. Case-preserving, but > |> insensitive, is the CORRECT way for file systems. Capitalization should not > |> matter for interpretation of a file name just as it doesn't matter for > |> interpreting words in any human language. > > This is wrong. In German, there is a big difference between "paar" und > "Paar" (the first meaning "a few", the second "pair").
The classic example:
"Ich habe liebe Genossen in Moskau" - I've got dead comreds in Moscow. "Ich habe Liebe genossen in Moskau" - I enjoyed love in Moscow.
Ralf
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