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Over 2bn people speak English, Spanish or French. That's somewhat significant. You're going to tell those 2bn people they can't have nice things because there are other people that wouldn't get them?

As I said before, I still don't think it is a good idea, but that's because of other reasons (basically it introduces more confusing behaviour than it removes); NOT because it can only work for a subset of people.




> Over 2bn people speak English, Spanish or French. That's somewhat significant. You're going to tell those 2bn people they can't have nice things because there are other people that wouldn't get them?

If the cost of the nice thing (which I, as one of the 2bn don't even consider nice) has to be paid by the other 6bn people as well, sure.

> As I said before, I still don't think it is a good idea, but that's because of other reasons (basically it introduces more confusing behaviour than it removes); NOT because it can only work for a subset of people.

This is my main reason for being hesitant to the whole thing as well. The post linked above just happened to broaden my view on the problem a bit.


100% agree that the argument should be around file system behaviour rather than some imagined social justice in file system names.

There are some weird takes on here. Most users aren’t even going to see the file system in the future.

If there were a time to make everything case insensitive it was 35 years ago.

We might even rarely type soon.




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