On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 08:51:14PM -0500, Ken Williams wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2005, at 3:04 PM, John Delacour wrote:
> >You're talking of file names, I suppose. I think you'll find that this
> >is a function of the file system which stores file names in
> >"decomposed" form, for what reason maybe someone else can tell you.
> So that the OS can quickly compare filenames in a case-independent
> fashion.
What an odd notion! Why would anyone want to do that? ;-)
It would also be useful for things like searching for filenames ignoring
all those silly accents that I can't type.
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