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Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by koolba on Friday May 31, 2024 @06:50AM (#40533436)
> Casing is usually not meaningful even in written language. "Hi, how are you?"

How about: “pay bill” vs “pay Bill”?

“Usually” in the context of automated systems design is a recipe for disaster.

Computers store bytes, not characters that may just happen to mean similar things. Shall we merge ümlauts? How to handle ß?

Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by lathiat on Friday May 31, 2024 @08:58AM (#40534583)
Case Preserving and Case Sensitive are subtly two different things. Most case insensitive file systems are case preserving and whatever the UTF8 equivalent is I forget the name.
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by nostrebored on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:02AM (#40536089)
But the gps point is that assuming you know the semantic meaning of the case and if retention is enough is silly.

Assuming case insensitivity is bizarre.

Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by mdaniel on Sunday June 02, 2024 @12:32PM (#40555367)
heh, I especially enjoy that in a huge thread about how capitalization does and doesn't matter, "gps point" was not, in fact, concerning some coordinates of the global positioning system but rather "GP's point". I first chalked it up to some autocomplete artifact but then realized what was actually happening
Re:Things you wish you didn't need to know about S3 by ooterness on Friday May 31, 2024 @11:18AM (#40536293)
Perfect is the enemy of good. It is quite acceptable to streamline the easy cases now and the hard cases later or never.