[fpc-pascal] Re: FPC with case insensitive file system under Linux

[Sven Barth]

Am 27.02.2012 10:11, schrieb Virgo Pärna:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:35:38 +0100, Jürgen Hestermann<juergen.hestermann at gmx.de>  wrote:
>>
>> I wholeheartly agree with you on case sensitive file names. It's a crap.
>> I never understood why they created such a nonsense.
>>
>
>      Case sensitive filesystem with file names written on different on different
> character set than current used to be real disaster. Unicode solves it partially, but
> really - case insensitive comparisions are language dependent. You need to know the
> language of filename. And I'm really not sure, how German ß would be handled.
>      Essentialy, case insensitive filesystems are less problematic.
>

Since last or second last year there is a capital ß. See here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%E1%BA%9E

Regards,
Sven