Re: case sensitivity questions - oh no!!

Branko Čibej wrote:
> Norbert Unterberg wrote:
>
>> 2005/7/25, Branko Čibej <brane@xbc.nu>:
>>> Such filesystems do one of two things:
>>> a) Invent a "canonical" case-folding function that "works" in all
>>> locales
>>> b) Use whichever locale happens to be in force to do the case folding
>>
>> How to do caseless matching is part of the unicode standard. See
>> chapter 3.13 and 4.2. It also provides the neccessary conversion
>> tables, i.e. this one:
>>
>> http://www.unicode.org/Public/4.1.0/ucd/CaseFolding.txt
>>
> Yes, but the problem is that this might not be the way a particular
> filesystem does it, so even if we used this algorithm on the server, we
> will still get some wrong results.

My reading of this (which was in an earlier post):

http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/01/16/353873.aspx

is that the intention of NTFS is to do Unicode case folding but there
are some missing mappings and a small number which are in error. The
missing mappings don't matter, we should stop those filenames anyway
because if/when Microsoft add the missing ones it will still be possible
to checkout a working copy. The ones which are there in error are a
problem but I will be putting my head in a large bucket of sand and
ignoring them until someone finds a real world example of a failure.

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