Re: Renaming files on win32

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 03:12:01 +0000, Philip Martin wrote:

>Unicode provides caseless matching
>http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr21/tr21-5.html#Caseless_Matching in
>which two characters are compared by converting both of them to a
>canonical form. Can Subversion use that? I don't know, it doesn't
>make sense to do it if Windows (or OSX) does something different. I
>don't even know if Windows and OSX have exactly the same behaviour as
>each other, let alone whether they implement Unicode rules.

>As far as I can see the only sensible way for Subversion to handle
>case-insensitivity is for it all to happen client-side and for the
>client to use the OS to determine whether two filenames refer to the
>same file.

        That works for me. Can we do this?

Gili
Received on Thu Dec 23 04:41:23 2004