Re: A draft for a multibyte and multi-codepoint C string interface

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 10:29:38AM +0200, tlaronde%polynum.com@localhost wrote:
> 
> There is a simple solution, the one developed by Ken Thompson and al.
> from the Bell Labs: UTF-8. As long as the system is concerned, the
> filenames should be octets strings (UTF-8) and the same filename
> is the exact same string. No semantics at all. (I simply hate
> filesystem that are case sensitive, and I simply don't want the
> disease to go any further.

I agree: the only think I can think of that's a worse idea than a case
insensitive file system is a culturally sensitive filesystem.

Thor