Re: Foreign file names on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:56:51 -0400
> 
> >> I.e. why fiddle with Vw32_downcase_file_names?
> 
> > Because 8+3 aliases are reported in all caps, as the comment says, so
> > instead of "some foreign file name.mp3" you get something like
> > "ABCDE~45.MP3", and I fear that not every alist in Emacs that supports
> > file recognition by extension includes both lower- and upper-case
> > variants.  Also, lower-casing the 8+3 aliases makes them slightly less
> > ugly, IMO.
> 
> The ugliness factor is irrelevant: those files are ugly anyway, and
> having them in all-caps makes it arguably (to me) more clear what's
> going on.
> 
> But the issue of recognition of all-caps extension is a good argument,
> that's the one that should be in the comment.

Is it worth the trouble to downcase only the extension?