D on next-gen consoles and for game development

Simen Kjaeraas simen.kjaras at gmail.com
Fri May 24 08:10:36 PDT 2013


On 2013-05-24, 16:24, Peter Alexander wrote:

> On Friday, 24 May 2013 at 13:37:36 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
>> (To be honest, feels a bit of a design flaw in Unicode that character  
>> length can
>> change between lower- and uppercase.)
>
> Unfortunately it's either that or lose compatibility with ASCII. Lower  
> case dotted-i needs to be one byte for ASCII, and upper case dotted-i  
> isn't ASCII, so it needs to be more than one byte.

One could certainly have two different lowercase dotted I's, with one
mapping to I and the other to İ, and their unicode values close to the
upper-case versions.

-- 
Simen


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