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I agree 100%.

From a technical implementation pov 'A' & 'a' are well established as different characters (ascii, unicode, etc). Regardless of personal preference, I don't understand how can a developer/Sys admin be surprised and even frustrated that a file system is case sensitive.

The developer is still free to abstract this away for the end user when it makes sense such as search results



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