Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts

[Juanma Barranquero]

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