From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090728151111.c277f46c.eekee57@fastmail.fm> References: <15757271b862d0a777062ca69f0993ca@terzarima.net> <20090728151111.c277f46c.eekee57@fastmail.fm> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:52:14 -0700 Message-ID: <7d3530220907280752v677873edhfed8599ebaefa3cc@mail.gmail.com> From: John Floren To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Woes of New Language Support Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2fd8c6c6-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis w= rote: > On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:39:46 +0100 > Charles Forsyth wrote: > >> >the unicode proposal says that matches depend on (re, locale, input). >> >not just (re, input). =C2=A0i would think that is not acceptable. >> >> it's not just the unicode people. shell file name matching takes locale = into account >> which often makes it case-independent (even with case-dependent >> file systems). i hate them all. >> > > You've got me wondering why anyone would want case-sensitive filename > matching. I don't understand what could be worth the regular irritation > I experience at having to get the case exactly right. > This is not VMS! This is Plan 9. There are rules. John --=20 "I've tried programming Ruby on Rails, following TechCrunch in my RSS reader, and drinking absinthe. It doesn't work. I'm going back to C, Hunter S. Thompson, and cheap whiskey." -- Ted Dziuba