Testiness.
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Wed Aug 31 04:04:18 UTC 2005
On Tuesday 30 August 2005 19:29, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > This is clearly broken behavior, I'm wondering where the brokenness
> > originated. (I'm guessing Microsoft might have been involved if it's a
> > standards body. After all, MS filesystems are case insensitive...)
>
> Looks broken to me, too. But it seems very few people even notice,
> and even fewer care.
Well, I care. :)
Busybox doesn't support much internationalization, because that's an enormous
source of bloat. We might support utf-8 someday if people can point out how
this is supposed to differ from what we're currently doing, but if it
includes this kind of blatant stupidity, then no, we won't. :)
As for this, I'm wondering if it's just a bug that became widespread because
everybody updated to the new GNU tools at once, or if somebody somewhere
intentionally made a really horrible decision (and if so, what their
rationale was)...
Rob
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