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10.3: Create a case-sensitive HFS+ disk
Authored by: otomo on Jan 21, '04 10:12:36PM

Well spoken language might have no case. But not every language when written has the same luxury.

Take German for example, Weiss vs weiss. One is a adverb or adjective. The other is the conjugated form of wissen (to know).

Now you would probably think that a file named Weiss and one named weiss would be the same. But in German, capitalization is quite important. Capitalize one thing, and you change alot more than you imagine.

Starting to see why case sensitivity is a good thing?

Once you move out of the realm of ye olde english, alot of things start to change. You cannot make the assumption that AABB is the same as AABb.

(I am using these examples just to demonstate a point, I am still learning German. English is my main language.)

Agree or disagree, case sensitivity will always be a good idea. For the only reason that a != A ever, this continues with every letter you can come up with, umlauted or not, diacritical mark or not.



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For the record...
Authored by: Whosawhatsis on Jan 21, '04 10:46:55PM

Weiss is the color white (noun), not an adjective or adverb.

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