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And then some code using Unix APIs would create two files whose names differ only in case and the UI layer would choke. This is why spray-on usability is bad.


The UI already has to deal with that anyway because it supports case sensitive volumes. What exactly constitutes case is locale specific, it differs from one user to the next, that logic would be messy to have inside the file system.




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