Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
File SystemArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.281,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
Unclear The finding does not say which features use this helper.
What
A new helper compares file paths without caring about upper or lower case on Windows, and on macOS after normalising accented characters to one standard form (NFC). On other systems it compares paths exactly.
Why
Windows and macOS usually treat File.txt and file.txt as the same file, so this matches how those systems behave.
How sure we are
Something disagreesSomething we can check disagrees with this entry, or the writer said they could not settle it.
The writer flagged doubtThe finding does not say which features use this helper.
