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Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts
From: |
Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:18:26 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> I see no difference here: in both case the bytestreams are different.
> The fact that Unicode sees one case but not the other as two
> equivalent strings, is irrelevant here, because file names are not
> simple text strings, they have other semantics.
I think we're accidentally rehearsing a recent discussion on the git
developer's list :)
You're approaching the issue (I think) from the low-level, operating
system side, while I'm approaching it from the high-level, user side.
To me, of course the most important semantics of a filename is how it
does appear to the user. I don't want "readme" and "README" to be two
different files, for example. I'm strongly in favor of the
case-folding-to compare, case-preserving-to-store side.
> Anyway, we are not talking about fonts, nor about Unicode decisions
> wrt character equivalency. We (at least I) were talking about the
> ``problem'' that several files have the same name if a file name is to
> be interpreted as a text string. As I said, I see no problem here,
> just entrenched customs.
>From my point of view, of course it is a problem. But I suppose
there's no point in discussing it.
Juanma
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, (continued)
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Markus, 2008/03/09
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts,
Juanma Barranquero <=
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/13
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
Message not availableRe: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Markus, 2008/03/13
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Peter Dyballa, 2008/03/13
Message not availableRe: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Piet van Oostrum, 2008/03/17
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/17
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/17