Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 12:29 UTC (Thu) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by nim-nim
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

> F-up all non-English languages of the world: NOT A PROBLEM.

Before UTF-8, there never was an encoding that could represent "all non-English languages". At most it could store one other language, or ten (Windows and its brain-dead decision to use 16-bit characters), and that is a subset of Unicode/utf-8.

> whenever UTF-8 gets deprecated

It won't be. There's no reason at all to do that, and several billion reasons not to.

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 12:43 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

(Windows and its brain-dead decision to use 16-bit characters), and that is a subset of Unicode/utf-8.

To be fair, that was the UNICODE spec at the time. Similarly, Java originally used 16-bit characters (and a char type is still 16 bits wide there). Now Java internally encodes strings as UTF-16 in order to support the expansion of UNICODE.