From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File name completion on Mac OS X with German umlauts Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:10:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1205439079 16918 80.91.229.12 (13 Mar 2008 20:11:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:11:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 13 21:11:47 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JZtm3-0007su-32 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:11:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtlT-00081b-Rp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtlA-0007zo-Rk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtl8-0007yz-ML for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:10:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZtl8-0007ys-Er for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZtl8-0002oG-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:10:38 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.199.143]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0JXO009UIRC6L633@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:24:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52387 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:18:26 +0100 > From: "Juanma Barranquero" > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > You're approaching the issue (I think) from the low-level, operating > system side, while I'm approaching it from the high-level, user side. Actually, I did both: from the low-level point of view, the file names are different due to different representations of the same letter; from the high-level user point of view, I see no problem with several files having the same name. > I don't want "readme" and "README" to be two different files Why not? Do you have trouble with two different entities having the same name? We see such things every day in our lives.