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> “e” and “E” are the same character They don't look like the same character to me. A character is a written symbol. These are different symbols. What definit
by kaashif 2y ago
> “e” and “E” are the same character
They don't look like the same character to me. A character is a written symbol. These are different symbols.
What definition of "character" are you using where they're the same character?
I haven't ruled out that I am wrong, this is a naive comment.
- Zambyte 2y agoAre the words hello and HELLO spelled differently? I am pretty squarely in the camp that filesystems should be case sensitive (perhaps with an insensitive shell on top), but I would not consider those two words as having a different spelling. To me that means they are the same sequence of characters.
- jodrellblank 2y agoWhen you press the "E" key on a US keyboard and "e" comes out, do you return the keyboard because it's broken? If not, then you know what definition I'm using even if I misnamed it.
- tacostakohashi 2y agoYou are confusing characters with glyphs. A glyph is a written symbol.
- kaashif 2y agoI thought that if they're different glyphs they're different characters. Surely the fact that they're represented differently in ASCII means ASCII regards them as different characters? Whether they're different glyphs or not depends on the font.
- taeric 2y agoAnd you seem to be conflating characters and letters. There are fewer letters in the standard alphabet than we have characters for the same, largely because we do distinguish between some letter forms. I suppose you could imagine a world where we don't, in fact, do this with just the character code. Seems fairly different from where we are, though?