• MudMan@fedia.io
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    12 hours ago

    OK, you’re going to have to be specific about your technical claims here. Which part of unicode support on filenames prevents case insensitive filenames?

    I mean, I don’t know why you made me try, because I do use non-English characters day to day. But you made me try, and sure enough, you can absolutely mix and match alphabets and cases in NTFS and still have it behave case-insensitively. i.e. делоinsensitive.txt and делоINSENSITIVE.txt can’t be placed in the same folder and are parsed as the same name.

    So if you have some bit of nuance about why you “cannot have” the feature that clearly works right now in front of me in my computer and has for ages I’m all ears. For a completely impossible implementation of a clearly useful feature it sure seems like it is actively supported in most of the FSs currently in use.

    EDIT: Made me go check because now I’m curious about the edge cases you guys keep claiming are catastrophic. Putting those two files in a case sensitive Samba share an opening it in Windows keeps the mix of characters but a suffix gets unceremoniously appended to the filename of one of the files. That’s probably a bit of a mess in some circumstances if you don’t know it’s coming, but there you go.

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      11 hours ago

      No, I’m not going to waste further time on trying to make you understand things you are not capable or interested in understanding.

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        11 hours ago

        Ah. So this functional feature is not actually functioning, I just see it function because I’m too dumb to understand all the ways it’s not actually doing the thing it’s doing.

        Gotcha.

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            10 hours ago

            Persuasive.

            So anyway, this here, kids, is why you don’t ever let software engineers actually design functionality for end users.

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                10 hours ago

                Don’t think I will.

                Case insensitive is still the right choice, too.

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                    9 hours ago

                    Man, that’s nice of you. I mean, you already were out of time to try to make your case like four posts ago and now you’re making time for empathy. I think we’re really turning this around now. This is real progress.