OData query $filter conditions and case-sensitivity

Question

Does OData specify whether filter conditions on string fields are to be evaluated case-sensitively or case-insensitively?

Example: (from the docs)

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Answer 1

I would expect this is depended on your database collation setting, as the odata service is just performing a query. If Vitek's answer is correct, then odata is doing some post query filtering on the result set, and that should be strange, right?