Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity

From: Pascal Schmidt
Date: Wed Feb 18 2004 - 19:09:24 EST


On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 00:40:21 +0100, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> Because a large number of file operations are on filenames that don't
> exist. I have to *prove* they don't exist. That includes:

Evil question: do you need to be case-preserving? 'Cause if not, you
could simply squash all incoming filenames from case-insensitive clients
to some canonical form (say, all lower-case) and use that.

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Ciao,
Pascal
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