Query on UTF-32 encodings for letters

Robert Dewar dewar@adacore.com
Tue Jan 18 00:26:00 GMT 2005


Paul Koning wrote:

> Agreed.  If the requirement is to do case folding independent of
> locale, then it follows that you must pick one, and be wrong for the
> others that use the same characters but apply different rules.  And
> that's why I said "anglocentric" -- though the more accurate adjective
> would be "eurocentric" given what you described.

Well for the dotted I case, it is not so much eurocentrism per se
that is at work, rather it is the issue of upwards compatibility.
(in any case Turkey is presumably part of Europe given that its
candidacy for the EU has been allowed to proceed past the first
stage :-)



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