Re: [ros-general] why folks (Fw: Kernel Support For Case-Insensitive Filenames)

[Martin Fuchs]

>   On 17.02.2004 13:46:43 Robert Shearman wrote:
>  Hi,
>  
>  There is an interesting thread on the linux-kernel mailing list about
>  the trying to add support for efficient case-insensitive lookups. Here's
>  a link to the thread if anyone wants to read about it or possibly chip
>  in :)
>  http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.2/0273.html 
They are now debatting about how to efficiently implement case insenitive filenames and
how to handle problems with different character encodings in file/path names on the Linux
kernel mailing list.
Linus is at the position to implement this by introducing some work around-like new system
calls. I think it isn't possible to do this correctly without handling any file names
in the kernel using Unicode. (be it UTF-8, UTF-16 or the four byte encoding used in unix
environments commonly)

NTFS has Unicode support since ages!
I think this shows one main point, why NT has been called "New Technology".

So I am waiting for a main feature announcement for Linux version [23]\.[0-9]\.[0-9\.]+
like "full Unicode support in kernel".  :-)

Regards,

  Martin