>>>>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> This is wrong on so many levels. :( It starts with the fact that the >> dot over the lowercase latin i historically never was a diacritical >> mark [1]. >> >> Maybe we should advise users in our documentaion that they should >> avoid such broken locales for ebuilds?
> i'm not sure telling people their native language is wrong is a smart > move. it also would seem to cut against the purpose of the PMS. There is of course nothing wrong with the Turkish language or writing system. However, if a language attaches meaning to the dot and uses it as a diacritical mark, then it is (IMHO) not the smartest move to encode it in a way that the letters I and i (which historically in the Latin alphabet are upper and lower case variants of each other) are reused. The sane thing would have been to encode the two Turkish i variants as "LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE" etc. Ulrich
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