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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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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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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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Ulrich |
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[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evolution_of_minuscule.svg |
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