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Wouldn't the 2 Is be different characters than the ASCII I and therefore each be subject to different capitilazation rules?
by fallingknife 5y ago
Wouldn't the 2 Is be different characters than the ASCII I and therefore each be subject to different capitilazation rules?
- simonh 5y agoThat's correct, but this could be very surprising for anyone not familiar with Turkish. For example if you have an English text which has a Turkish word in it, maybe a place or person name. Or for example when doing OCR.
- DemocracyFTW 5y agoThis could've been a solution but is not what Unicode chose to do (in this particular case). Also relevant: discussion around unifying glyphs like A, B, C, E and so on across Cyrillic, Latin, and Greek, all with their language-specific casing behavior.
- int_19h 5y agoCoincidentally, Cyrillic I/i is also a thing (and is separately encoded!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_I_(Cyrillic)#Computing_codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_I_(Cyrillic)#Computing_...