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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Rainer Deyke - rainerd at eldwood.com
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