Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Nov 29, 2018 12:43 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by smurf
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

(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.