Query on UTF-32 encodings for letters

[Georg Bauhaus]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> I hope Turkish programmers using
> Ada will not get completely confused :-)

There are quite a few Turkish people around here. I can
confirm that they know how to work around missing dotless i and
dot-less I when hardware or software don't offer one.

> It's a very deliberate decision too, since it is inconsistent
> with the surrounding characters:

I just noticed that this character is treated specially in
CaseFolding.txt. Seems like a good catalyst character if you want
a complexity reaction :)

0130; F; 0069 0307; # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE
0130; T; 0069; # LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE

# The status field is:
# C: common case folding, common mappings shared by both simple and full mappings.
# F: full case folding, mappings that cause strings to grow in length. Multiple characters are separated by spaces.
# S: simple case folding, mappings to single characters where different from F.
# T: special case for uppercase I and dotted uppercase I
#    - For non-Turkic languages, this mapping is normally not used.
#    - For Turkic languages (tr, az), this mapping can be used instead of the normal mapping for these characters.
#      Note that the Turkic mappings do not maintain canonical equivalence without additional processing.
#      See the discussions of case mapping in the Unicode Standard for more information.


> Bah! Makes me think even more that the whole business of extending case
> insensitive letters to wide characters was a mistake. Oh well, I have got
> it all implemented now :-)

I for one am looking forward to portable international Ada source code.


Georg