Case-sensitivity: why -- or why not? (was Re: Damnation!)

[Emile van Sebille]

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Boddie <paulb at infercor.no>

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> What are the problems with case insensitivity? Being aware
that some names which
> might look very different actually refer to the same
thing, because it is the
> "pattern" of case in these names which is the only thing
distinguishing them.
>

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> Paul


This past weekend, I inherited a web site project laid
out for NT using VBSript.  I re-hosted to linux with
Chili!Soft.  My major problem so far has been case
issues related to winxx/*nix file system.  In particular,
quoted references to files were inconsistent in the code.
AUTH.asp vs auth.asp vs AUTH.ASP. ;(  Windows liked this
just fine.  Linux of course didn't.  These problems
will continue to exist regardless of which way python
moves as long as the *nixen distinguish file names
based on case.


Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
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