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Strongly agree. The way the roman alphabet is represented on digital computers is to treat upper- and lowercase letters as completely separate sets of character
by advael 4y ago
Strongly agree. The way the roman alphabet is represented on digital computers is to treat upper- and lowercase letters as completely separate sets of characters. People are pretty used to treating these sets of letters as functionally equivalent across "cases", so there's an argument to be made that this is a weird and unnatural choice. Maybe it would have been better to treat the "case" of a letter like we treat fonts, as information separate from the plain text that's only ever used in rich text display. But since this representational convention is settled across every platform, it is a much weirder and more confusing choice to then treat these characters as equivalent when naming files, and causes more confusion than it clears up