Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred for Case-Insensitive File-Systems

2 comments

• jandrese 286 days ago
  His point that casefolding in a Unicode world is a minefield is completely correct.

  This classic StackExchange post goes into some of the reasons why: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-...
• theanonymousone 285 days ago
  I'm not a purist, but working with SQL as a case insensitive but otherwise great and very useful language seems to be really annoying and "shaky", especially when you have interface it with a cade-sensitive interface (e.g. JDBC, pandas).