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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred for Case-Insensitive File-Systems
- jandrese 1y agoHis point that casefolding in a Unicode world is a minefield is completely correct. This classic StackExchange post goes into some of the reasons why: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6162484/why-does-modern-...
- theanonymousone 1y agoI'm not a purist, but working with SQL as a case insensitive but otherwise great and very useful language seems to be really annoying and "shaky", especially when you have interface it with a cade-sensitive interface (e.g. JDBC, pandas).