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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by blahgeek on Friday May 31, 2024 @01:57AM (#40531930)
No offense, but I think that's a very western-centric view. Your example only make sense when the user is familiar to English (or other western languages, I guess). To me personally, I find it strange that "D.txt" and "d.txt" means the same file, since they are two very different characters. Likewise, I think you would also go crazy if I tell you "ア.txt" and "あ.txt" means the same file (which is hiragana and katakana for A respectively, which in a sense is equivalent to uppercase and lowercase in Japanese), or "一.txt" and "壹.txt" means the same file (which both means number 1 in Chinese, we call the latter one literally "uppercase number")
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by ClumsyPilot on Friday May 31, 2024 @04:16AM (#40532586)
Those are all the same, I don’t see an issue
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by n_plus_1_acc on Friday May 31, 2024 @07:06AM (#40533525)
What if Unicode updates some capitalization rules in the next version, and after an OS updates some filenames now collide and one of the is inaccessible?
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by taeric on Friday May 31, 2024 @10:37AM (#40535782)
Agreed, and you could even take this into "1.txt" being the same as "One.txt". Which, I mean, fair that I would expect a speech system to find either if I speak "One dot t x t". But, it would also find "Won.txt" and trying to bridge the phonetic to the symbolic is going to be obviously fraught with trouble.
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by JohnFen on Friday May 31, 2024 @12:06PM (#40536849)
> To me personally, I find it strange that "D.txt" and "d.txt" means the same file, since they are two very different characters.

As a native English speaker, I agree with this.