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Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts
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Juanma Barranquero |
Subject: |
Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:03:55 +0100 |
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 9:10 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Actually, I did both: from the low-level point of view, the file names
> are different due to different representations of the same letter;
> from the high-level user point of view, I see no problem with several
> files having the same name.
You don't see a problem with a listing of the files, and I don't,
either. But if you're talking to the guy in the cubicle next to yours,
saying "the data is in the s
`Sales 2007' file. Uppercase Sales, of course; lowercase Sales is
another thing altogether" would surely prompt a comment about choosing
more sensible names. Most discussions I've seen about this issue seem
to assume file names are mostly computer generated, or for program
consumption; non-programmer users would usually choose descriptive
names and not rely in non-semantic, non-verbal cues like case.
> Why not? Do you have trouble with two different entities having the
> same name?
Sometimes, yes, unless we're talking of entities in very different contexts.
> We see such things every day in our lives.
Yes. And it often causes confusion, and prompts further explanations.
"Body snatchers? Book or film? If film, which one?"
Juanma
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, (continued)
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/12
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Juanma Barranquero, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts,
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Markus, 2008/03/13
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Peter Dyballa, 2008/03/13
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- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Piet van Oostrum, 2008/03/17
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/17
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/03/17
- Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/03/18