Posted by Wayne on 12/21/05 13:05

On 21 Dec 2005 02:16:11 -0800, tony@marston-home.demon.co.uk wrote:

>My point is that for 30 years I have worked with tools which were
>totally insensitive to case, but some morons seem to think that case is
>important. For God's sake WHY! What problem existed in the
>case-insensitive world that needed to be fixed?

Unicode.

In order to determine if two strings match entirely based on case you
have to take a lot of things into consideration. It's no longer
sufficient to say A-Z maps to a-z.

The only reason languages like Fortran are case-insensitive is because
punch cards and many early terminals only had uppercase characters.

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