Re: case-insensitive file extensions

[Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf]

On 12.04.2003 13:37:35 Rob Burns wrote:
>In NSWorkspace the methods concerned with selecting icons, and apps for 
files 
>with a given extension operate as if extensions were case insensitive. 
There 
>are comments to the effect that they are supposed to be case-insensitive. 
But, 
>I couldn't find this in the documentation anywhere. My question is, 
should apps 
>wanting to do checks on a file extension, always assume that they could 
be 
>getting either a .ZIP file or a .zip file. (because an app that 
advertises for 
>just .zip files could recieve both) or should NSOpenPanel, gopen, and 
>GWorkspace be providing filenames with only lowercase extensions, as 
extensions 
>are supposed to be case-insensitive. Currently those three places provide 
the 
>actual filename, preserving the case of the extension.

i just want to remind you that ISO 9660 CD-ROMs have an 8.3 naming scheme 
with all Letters uppercase. So if you burn a file.zip on an ISO 9660 CD-R 
this file will change into FILE.ZIP. Please also remember that, if you 
cowork with Windows users (this situation is very common in business) 
you'll often get files with mangled filenames (Windows is not case 
sensitive, but seems even not to be case preserving in some cases).

>
>Thanks,
>Rob
>

greetings, Lars

>
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