Turkish 'I's can't D either

Rainer Deyke rainerd at eldwood.com
Tue Aug 25 02:01:32 PDT 2009


Ali Cehreli wrote:
> Rainer Deyke Wrote:
> 
>> This appears to be a library issue to me.
> 
> I started to see this at a more fundamental level. The Unicode letter
> I (dotless capital i) has two possible lowercases

According to ICU, Lithuanian sometimes uses a third.

> and letter i has
> two possible uppercases. The chain of some historical events appears
> to have produced a crippled system: the application can't know how to
> lowercase or uppercase those.

That's hardly the only case where unicode behavior is locale-dependent.
 For example, collating order varies widely between languages.


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