Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred for Case-Insensitive File-Systems

His point that casefolding in a Unicode world is a minefield is completely correct.<p>This classic StackExchange post goes into some of the reasons why: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6162484&#x2F;why-does-modern-perl-avoid-utf-8-by-default" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;questions&#x2F;6162484&#x2F;why-does-modern-...</a>

I&#x27;m not a purist, but working with SQL as a case insensitive but otherwise great and very useful language seems to be really annoying and &quot;shaky&quot;, especially when you have interface it with a cade-sensitive interface (e.g. JDBC, pandas).