In computers, case sensitivity defines whether uppercase and lowercase letters are treated as distinct ( case-sensitive ) or equivalent ( case-insensitive ). For instance, when users interested in learning about dogs search an e-book , "dog" and "Dog" are of the same significance to them. Thus, they request a case-insensitive search. But when they search an online encyclopedia for information about the United Nations , for example, or something with no ambiguity regarding capitalization and ambiguity between two or more terms cut down by capitalization, they may prefer a case-sensitive search.
15-535: [REDACTED] You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French . (August 2022) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the French article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate , is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that
30-669: A file named Makefile and a file named makefile in the same directory. In addition, some Mac Installers assume case insensitivity and fail on case-sensitive file systems. The older MS-DOS filesystems FAT12 and FAT16 were case-insensitive and not case-preserving, so that a file whose name is entered as readme.txt or ReadMe.txt is saved as README.TXT. Later, with VFAT in Windows 95 the FAT file systems became case-preserving as an extension of supporting long filenames . Later Windows file systems such as NTFS are internally case-sensitive, and
45-449: A variable is defined in lowercase, it cannot be referred to in uppercase. Nim is case-insensitive and ignores underscores, as long as the first characters match. A text search operation could be case-sensitive or case-insensitive, depending on the system, application, or context. The user can in many cases specify whether a search is sensitive to case, e.g. in most text editors, word processors, and Web browsers. A case-insensitive search
60-655: Is more comprehensive, finding "Language" (at the beginning of a sentence), "language", and "LANGUAGE" (in a title in capitals); a case-sensitive search will find the computer language "BASIC" but exclude most of the many unwanted instances of the word. For example, the Google Search engine is basically case-insensitive, with no option for case-sensitive search. In Oracle SQL, most operations and searches are case-sensitive by default, while in most other DBMSes , SQL searches are case-insensitive by default. Case-insensitive operations are sometimes said to fold case , from
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90-507: The data itself) Pascal , Rexx and ooRexx . There are also languages, such as Haskell , Prolog , and Go , in which the capitalisation of an identifier encodes information about its semantics . Some other programming languages have varying case sensitivity; in PHP , for example, variable names are case-sensitive but function names are not case-sensitive. This means that if a function is defined in lowercase, it can be called in uppercase, but if
105-419: The foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Misplaced Pages article at [[:fr:Conférence géographique de Bruxelles]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add
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135-1531: The geographic sciences or were wealthy philanthropists . Before the guests returned to their respective countries, they voted to establish the International African Association . This initiative would in the end pave the way for the creation of Congo Free State . See also [ edit ] Berlin Conference of 1884-85 Sources [ edit ] Émile Banning , Africa and the Brussels geographical conference , translated by Richard Henry Major, London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877 Fondation du Congo, Memoires de Emile Banning, 1927 Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brussels_Geographic_Conference&oldid=1231211558 " Categories : History of European colonialism Diplomatic conferences in Belgium Geography conferences 19th-century diplomatic conferences 1876 in international relations 1876 in Belgium 1876 conferences 19th century in Brussels Hidden category: Articles needing translation from French Misplaced Pages Conf%C3%A9rence g%C3%A9ographique de Bruxelles From Misplaced Pages,
150-459: The idea of folding the character code table so that upper- and lowercase letters coincide. In filesystems in Unix-like systems, filenames are usually case-sensitive (there can be separate readme.txt and Readme.txt files in the same directory). MacOS is somewhat unusual in that, by default, it uses HFS+ and APFS in a case-insensitive (so that there cannot be a readme.txt and a Readme.txt in
165-477: The purge function . Titles on Misplaced Pages are case sensitive except for the first character; please check alternative capitalizations and consider adding a redirect here to the correct title. If the page has been deleted, check the deletion log , and see Why was the page I created deleted? Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conférence_géographique_de_Bruxelles " Case sensitivity Case sensitivity may differ depending on
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#1732765735054180-400: The same directory) but case-preserving mode (so that a file created as readme.txt is shown as readme.txt and a file created as Readme.txt is shown as Readme.txt) by default. This causes some issues for developers and power users , because most file systems in other Unix-like environments are case-sensitive, and, for example, a source code tree for software for Unix-like systems might have both
195-399: The situation: Some programming languages are case-sensitive for their identifiers ( C , C++ , Java , C# , Verilog , Ruby , Python and Swift ). Others are case-insensitive (i.e., not case-sensitive), such as ABAP , Ada , most BASICs (an exception being BBC BASIC ), Common Lisp , Fortran , SQL (for the syntax, and for some vendor implementations, e.g. Microsoft SQL Server ,
210-516: The template {{Translated|fr|Conférence géographique de Bruxelles}} to the talk page . For more guidance, see Misplaced Pages:Translation . [REDACTED] The Brussels Geographic Conference was held in Brussels , Belgium in September 1876 at the request of King Leopold II of Belgium . At the conference were invited nearly forty well-known experts, mainly they were schooled in
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