From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266610AbUBQVKF (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:10:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266600AbUBQVIu (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:08:50 -0500 Received: from [212.28.208.94] ([212.28.208.94]:40714 "HELO dewire.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S266610AbUBQVI1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:08:27 -0500 From: Robin Rosenberg To: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: UTF-8 and case-insensitivity Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 22:08:25 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 Cc: tridge@samba.org, Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro References: <16433.38038.881005.468116@samba.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402172208.25398.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 17 February 2004 17.57, Linus Torvalds wrote: [case-insanesititvity proposal ///] > See where I'm going? Would this be acceptable to you? Are there any samba > people who are knowledgeable about the VFS-layer and have the time/energy > to try something like this? So the same guy that strongly insist that a file is a string of bytes and nothing else, now thinks it is sane to even think of "case" of a byte. That's impossible unless you actually DO believe its a bunch of characters. What is it? -- robin