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Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Dec 4, 2018 8:13 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (guest, #24648)
In reply to: Filesystems and case-insensitivity by perennialmind
Parent article: Filesystems and case-insensitivity

one true space space character (U+0020)

Um, there's more than one space: ' ' and ' '. One is \u0020 (good ol' ASCII 0x20) and the other is \u00a0.

I was personally burned by the second "space" above appearing in an Excel spreadsheet (to the exclusion of the "one true space character" you mentioned). >:-(

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Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Dec 4, 2018 10:24 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (3 responses)

Don't worry – Unicode has a bunch more spaces, including zero-width ones.

On second thought: do worry.

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Dec 4, 2018 13:27 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (guest, #307) [Link] (2 responses)

The initial argument still holds: there is no reasonable rationale for those other space characters (including U+00a0) in file names.

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Dec 12, 2018 23:45 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link] (1 responses)

there is no reasonable rationale for those other space characters (including U+00a0) in file names.

Agreed, but try telling that to those fools who auto-generated the spreadsheet with \u00a0 spaces. </angry rant>

Filesystems and case-insensitivity

Posted Dec 13, 2018 10:33 UTC (Thu) by james (guest, #1325) [Link]

Would it calm your anger to point out that LibreOffice can search using regexps?


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