Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
by GoblinSlayer on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @01:18PM
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Case insensitive file systems might as well be a historic accident, because lower case letters didn't always exist and then it was kept for backward compatibility.
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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes
by throwaway09223 on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:28PM
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Case insensitive functions are common. Filesystems are just one of many places where this kind of function is expected.
It's just a particularly common canonicalization function. Canonicalization is a common need across all languages as we've already clearly established.