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> Makes me wonder how case insensitive file systems handle this... They generally don't. It is true that several case-insensitive file systems (including NTFS,
by lifthrasiir 5y ago
> Makes me wonder how case insensitive file systems handle this...
They generally don't. It is true that several case-insensitive file systems (including NTFS, exFAT and ext4 [1]) maintain some sort of configurable case-folding maps but they are mostly used to guard against the future Unicode update and do not vary across locales.
[1] https://dfir.ru/2021/07/15/playing-with-case-insensitive-file-names/ https://dfir.ru/2021/07/15/playing-with-case-insensitive-fil... (ext4 supports an optional case insensitivity)