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On 27 May 2010 01:00, karl williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: >> No doubt Burak can find loads of photos of Turkish signs using the >> lowercase i, and since we know the turkish rule for uppercasing is >> "special" we thus can prove that the dotless I should have a lower >> case equivalent. > > I'm sure there are plenty of street signs in Turkey with a dotless i, but > that already is in Unicode as U+0131, LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I, and it's > capital is U+0049 'I' (which as you can see doesn't have a dot). Instead in > Turkish, the capital of U+0069 'i' with a dot is U+0130 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER > I WITH DOT ABOVE. It's English and various other European languages that > lose their dot when capitalized. What should have happened (in my mostly > uneducated opinion) is that they should not have used U+0069 as the lower > case of U+0130; instead there should have been a new letter that looks just > like U+0069 'i', but whose upper case was U+0130. I got mangled up there, basically I was /trying/ to say what you say here, but got it all backwards. >I think there is too much > code that would break if they were to change it now, and that's why we're > stuck. Yeah, unfortunately. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous