Linus Torvalds on HFS+
Can someone explain to me why case insensitivity is a bad thing? Clearly Linus believes so but didn't explain why he believes so.<p>Most UNIX and Linux systems seem to have an "all lowercase" or "all uppercase" convention, so the fact that they have case sensitivity is often not utilised.<p>In fact the biggest reason you'd want case sensitivity off the top of my head is legacy support but that's just a circular argument (since you never really reach WHY it was that way originally, just that it was).<p>I guess based on what he talks about next he is worried about how case insensitivity interacts with other character sets (i.e. does it correctly change their case), but for most sets isn't the lower and upper case defined in the UNICODE language spec itself?