On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 23:33 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:28:16 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > > > >You're right it is not really insensitive. The lower case appears before the > >upper case of a given character. I.e. "apple" is before "Apple". My bad > >terminology. I guess the order is aAbBcCdD and so on. > > > Actually, no. Not according to a couple dictionaries I glanced at, > and OpenSolaris: > > 509 $ ls -1 > castor > Castor > castor bean > 510 $ > > What does Linux do? > > The technique appears to be: First sort as if entirely case-insensitive; > only then resolve any ties by considering the case of the characters. > > Which is why I suggested keeping all alphabetic characters in a single > case, followed by a bitmap identifying the case of the characters. > Case-insensitive lookup would ignore the bitmap; case sensitive would > consider it. > > -- gil >
Same as Solaris. Happy 2010 to all. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
