Re: Letters with **three** cases?

Colin Fine wrote:
> Once more - when computers and programming were the provenance
> of geeks (or 'specialists', if you prefer) they were prepared
> to accommodate the limitations of the computers and treat 'a'
> and 'A' as different. Now that non-specialists are increasingly
> involved, I wish that the computers had been made to accommodate
> to the humans. This is one thing that Microsoft more or less
> got right. IMHO.

I am just curious, outside of url's, are there a lot of
undesirable case-ensitive situtations that the average non-
specialists have to deal with?

For instance, case-sensitivity in passwords is arguably
desirable.

Case-sensitivity in url's is actually controlled by the HTTP
server; blame it on CERN to set a bad example

Btw, the file systems in Unix does not have to be case-
sensitive. One can run NTFS (Windows NT) or even FAT (Dos)
on Unix.

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