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> Casing is usually not meaningful even in written language. "Hi, how are you?" How about: “pay bill” vs “pay Bill”? “Usually” in the context of automated sys
by koolba 2y ago
> Casing is usually not meaningful even in written language. "Hi, how are you?"
How about: “pay bill” vs “pay Bill”?
“Usually” in the context of automated systems design is a recipe for disaster.
Computers store bytes, not characters that may just happen to mean similar things. Shall we merge ümlauts? How to handle ß?
- lathiat 2y agoCase Preserving and Case Sensitive are subtly two different things. Most case insensitive file systems are case preserving and whatever the UTF8 equivalent is I forget the name.
- nostrebored 2y agoBut the gps point is that assuming you know the semantic meaning of the case and if retention is enough is silly. Assuming case insensitivity is bizarre.
- mdaniel 2y agoheh, I especially enjoy that in a huge thread about how capitalization does and doesn't matter, "gps point" was not, in fact, concerning some coordinates of the global positioning system but rather "GP's point". I first chalked it up to some autocomplete artifact but then realized what was actually happening
- ooterness 2y agoPerfect is the enemy of good. It is quite acceptable to streamline the easy cases now and the hard cases later or never.