Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Filesystems and case-insensitivity
Posted Dec 2, 2018 17:19 UTC (Sun) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by epa
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity
> Is there any reason not to treat i, İ, I, and ı the same for case-folding purposes on the file system?
Sure they could. But doing it is hard (and computationally expensive).
This is what I meant with
> What the developers could do is a kind of case-insensitive look-up that also clusters together "similar" letters. Defining which characters are similar opens, however, another can of worms (see `confusables.txt` from Unicode or all the discussions around IDNA and its Nameprep algorithm).