Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
Posted Mar 28, 2009 1:00 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by mjthayer
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
German ß is problematic too. Whether 'SS' turns into ß or not on
downcasing is *context-dependent* and to a certain extent a matter of
controversy and thus taste (this wasn't always true, but successive waves
of largely-failed spelling reforms have introduced a nice steaming heap of
uncertainty into this part of the written language).
downcasing is *context-dependent* and to a certain extent a matter of
controversy and thus taste (this wasn't always true, but successive waves
of largely-failed spelling reforms have introduced a nice steaming heap of
uncertainty into this part of the written language).
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