Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 17:27:16 EST




On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> The second basic fact that I think is relevant is that its not
> possible to do case-insensitive filesystem operations efficiently
> without the filesystem having knowledge of the fact that you want a
> case-insensitive lookup.

That's not my problem. That is _your_ problem, and I don't care. I
disagree violently with the notion that we would push this down to a
filesystem level.

Sorry, but there are limits to how much we care about broken operating
systems.

Linus
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