[Lazarus] "Sort files alphabitically" is case-sensitive :-(

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 15 12:55:47 CET 2011


Am 15.11.2011 12:46, schrieb Michael Schnell:
> On 11/14/2011 06:42 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>>
>>> OS X is not always case insensitive, you can format a filesystem with
>>> case sensitivity enabled too. Just thought I would mention this.
>> Same for Linux.
> ???
>
> I understand that DOS is handled as case insensitive (and supposedly
> NTFS, too), but other file systems ? I did not yet see a file system
> that provides case (in)sensitivity as an option.

NTFS is one. The filesystem itself is case sensitive, but Windows treats 
it as case insensitive (using the Interix POSIX subsystem one can even 
create files that differ only in casing and are correctly displayed by 
the Explorer).

Regards,
Sven





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