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On 23/07/2012 14:24, Henrik Faber wrote:
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> And if I think of PHP's latest fiasco that happened with unicode
> characters, it makes me shudder to think you'd want that stuff in
> Python. If I remember correctly, it was the Turkish locale that they
> stuggled with: Turkey apparently does not have a capital "I", so some
> weird PHP magic code broke with the Turkish locale in effect. Having to
> keep crap like that in mind is just plain horrible. I'm very happy with
> the way Python does it.
>
When Turkish changed to the Latin alphabet, the letter pair I/i was
split into 2 separate letters, each with an uppercase and a lowercase
form: I/ı (uppercase without dot and lowercase without dot) and İ/i
(uppercase with dot and lowercase with dot).