Is HFS really "scary"?

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2008-02-06 12:13:32 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> That's probably never going to happen.  When you're dealing with grandma 
> on the phone and she's saying "I can't open my file named ``fluffy!''", 
> the last thing you need is to go 10 rounds trying to figure out whether 
> she actually named it Fluffy, fluffY or FlUFfY.  That is why case 
> insensitivity was added in the first place (and believe me, it was a lot 
> more work than being case sensitive).

Hmm... this doesn't solve some problems with Unicode (which are
starting to occur nowadays):

prunille:~> ls flu*
fluffy  fluffy

At least, HFS+ "solves" the NFC/NFD problem (except for Subversion
users).

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