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Re:WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI by Dwedit on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:01PM (#42660171)
Did not know about $UpCase, the only part I knew was that the FAT16/32 driver from Microsoft (Which has the source code officially released, it's used as an example for how to implement a filesystem on Windows NT) uses locale-specific case-sensitivity tests.
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Re:WorstFit: Unveiling Hidden Transformers in Windows ANSI by cesarb on Friday January 10, 2025 @08:38PM (#42662505)
You're right, in the case of FAT16/FAT32 it AFAIK has to use the current system locale, since unlike EXFAT or NTFS there isn't a place in the filesystem to store that locale table.
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