• gazter@aussie.zone
    45·
    2 days ago

    If I have four files, a.txt, A.txt, b.txt, and B.txt, in what order do they appear when I sort alphabetically?

    edit: I don’t understand why this was downvoted?

        • gazter@aussie.zone
          7·
          2 days ago

          So if someone tells me to look for a file amongst a long list, I need to look in two different areas- the uppercase and lowercase areas.

          I get why it’s more technically correct to differentiate, but from the perspective of a human user, it’s a pain in the ass.

          • Ferk@programming.dev
            1·
            22 hours ago

            I’m with you, and not just from a “human” perspective. Also when writing small programs meant to be relatively lean/simple it can be a problem when the user expects it to find a particular file regardless of its case (will it be DOOM.WAD or doom.wad? Doom.wad? Doom.WAD? … guess it’ll have to be [Dd][Oo][Oo][Mm].[Ww][Aa][Dd] and import some globbing library as extra dependency… that, or list the whole directory regardless its size and lower/upper every single filename until you find a matching one…)

            • gazter@aussie.zone
              2·
              13 hours ago

              Oh jeez, I hadn’t even thought about capitalisation in the file extension. That would be especially confusing if extensions are hidden- the user would be presented with two files that look exactly the same.