Re: [Gnu-arch-users] case preserving vs. case insensitive

[Pierce T . Wetter III]

On Mar 11, 2004, at 7:59 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 07:52:39AM -0700, Pierce T.Wetter III wrote:
> >   Note that English, is CaSe InsEnsiTive.
>
> Do you not distinguish between 'cat' the animal
> and CAT the maker of industrial caterpillared tractors?

  If I could, you wouldn't need to specify "the animal" and "the maker 
of industrial caterpillared tractors".

  Separating:

   "Do you not distinguish between 'cat" and CAT".

    Do you not distinguish between the animal and the maker of 
industrial
caterpillared tractors.

    Not that the first sentence is meaningless, while the second 
sentence actually
makes sense. QED, most of the information content in that sentence was 
not the CaT.

 Also, as far as case sensitivity goes, go read the Unicode 
spec...certain byte sequences are supposed to compare to be equal to 
completely different sequences...ugh

  Pierce