Re: A draft for a multibyte and multi-codepoint C string interface

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On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:18:37AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:29:38AM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost 
> wrote:
> > 
> > There is a simple solution, the one developed by Ken Thompson and al.
> > from the Bell Labs: UTF-8. As long as the system is concerned, the
> > filenames should be octets strings (UTF-8) and the same filename
> > is the exact same string. No semantics at all. (I simply hate
> > filesystem that are case sensitive, and I simply don't want the
> > disease to go any further.
> 
> I agree: the only think I can think of that's a worse idea than a case
> insensitive file system is a culturally sensitive filesystem.

You automatically corrected my typo: I did mean I hate a "case 
insensitive" filesystem. But it should be obvious... I hope.

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