Any arguments for keeping Yum case-sensitive?

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Thu Mar 10 04:05:10 UTC 2011


Once upon a time, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> said:
> Beg yours?  There's plenty of procedures for treating "A" as "a" in
> computing.

In 7 bit ASCII, sure.  But the world has moved on (since most of the
worlds' languages don't work in 7 bit ASCII), and UTF makes this vastly
more complicated (including rules that change based on the current
locale).

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.


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