Case-insensitive filesystem lookups

Posted May 26, 2018 15:48 UTC (Sat) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Case-insensitive filesystem lookups by epa
Parent article: Case-insensitive filesystem lookups

But then, in Turkish the distinction between i and ı is probably a lot stronger than the difference of an accent in Spanish.

I don't know how it is in Turkish, but in my native Finnish you cannot be careless with dieresis on top of "a" or "o". Dropping it can change a word into a different word. For example, "sää" and "saa" are both valid Finnish words with entirely different meanings. Of course, humans usually can figure out words with omitted dots from context, the same way one can mentally correct other kinds of mis-spellings.

By the way, someone jokingly mentioned making "v and "w" equivalent. Actually the normal alphabetical ordering rules of Finnish specify precisely that. However, Linux "ls", "bash" and so on under the Finnish locale does not obey this particular rule. Probably a good thing, I won't be filing a bug report...