Re: Bug#333776: linux-2.6: vfat driver in 2.6.12 is not properly case-insensitive

From: Ingo Oeser
Date: Sat Oct 29 2005 - 09:45:36 EST


Hi,

On Friday 28 October 2005 16:54, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
> Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > I guess it is charset2lower or charset2upper that vfat is calling,
> > which make no conversion, thus leading to the problem I outlined above.
> >
> > My question is: Is this behaviour correct, or is it a bug?
>
> This is known bug. For fixing this bug cleanly, we will need to much
> change the both of nls and filesystems.

Using per locale collation sequences? :-)

Do you know, how Windows handles the problem of differing collation
sequences on the file system? Or is the file system always dependend
on the locale of the Windows version, which created the file system?

I'm so happy, that Unix is not case insensitive :-)


Regards

Ingo Oeser

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