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On 11 Nov 2015 08:37, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, René Neumann wrote: |
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> >> Shouldn't these be safe to use if the string consists purely of |
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> >> ASCII characters? I mean, A-Z and a-z should be uppercase and |
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> >> lowercase, respectively, in any locale? |
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> > Unfortunately, no (have been bitten by this issue already some years |
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> > ago): |
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> > $ echo $LC_ALL |
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> > tr_TR |
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> > $ f=i; echo ${f^^} |
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> > İ |
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> > $ f=I; echo ${f,} |
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> > ı |
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> |
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> This is wrong on so many levels. :( It starts with the fact that the |
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> dot over the lowercase latin i historically never was a diacritical |
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> mark [1]. |
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> |
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> Maybe we should advise users in our documentaion that they should |
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> avoid such broken locales for ebuilds? |
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i'm not sure telling people their native language is wrong is a smart |
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move. it also would seem to cut against the purpose of the PMS. |
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-mike |
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