[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 10:07:44 CEST 2011


On 15/09/2011 09:43, Michael Schnell wrote:
> there are lots of file systems in Linux. They can work differently. i.e. 
> FAT works case insensitive while ext* works cases sensitive. IMHO ext 
> completely ignores character coding and just works on byte arrays.

You also forgot to mention that most file systems under Linux (and Mac)
can be tuned. Case sensitive or not, what encoding they should use
etc... So making a generic statement like the original post about *nix
files systems is just wrong.


Regards,
  - Graeme -

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