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On Nov 27 18:51, Achim Gratz wrote: > Corinna Vinschen writes: > > I have to increment my idiot score by one. This explanation only makes > > sense on NTFS, of course. FAT doesn't sort at all. And even on NTFS, > > the sort order is not just using the UTF-16 value of a character, but > > the UTF-16 value of the uppercased character(*). Oh my. > > > > (*) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/06/17/430194.aspx > > So, since FAT(32) is still a viable option for an install location we > should sort the list of files we get from the find, right? It might help, yes. It's also the safest way to implement that afaics. > > >> Good, I was just worried that someone with a strange locale might end up > >> with a different sort order. > > > > Let's just stick to ASCII for this. > > Do we need to enforce that and if so, how? No, let's keep this by contract only. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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