Filesystems and case-insensitivity [LWN.net]

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Dec 1, 2018 11:24 UTC (Sat) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by perennialmind
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

I mean all the bytes below 0x20. This is not text, they have no place in a *character* encoding. Apart from that I'm totally fine with ASCII compatibility, even though it's typically American culturally insensitive invention ;)

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Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Dec 6, 2018 10:16 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

I believe there are two control characters RS1 and RS2? Basically standing for "Repeat String"? Which were used on a system I worked on, and actually were a damn good fix for "how many characters does a tab stand for?". So most lines in my FORTRAN source code would have been physically stored on disk as "<RS1><6>code..."

And if you had a lot of spaces it saved a fair few bytes over tab-encoding, plus being completely unambiguous.

Cheers,
Wol