On Friday, January 2, 2015 10:45:17 PM UTC+5:30, Rick Johnson wrote: > On Friday, January 2, 2015 8:01:50 AM UTC-6, Chris Angelico wrote: > > I'm not sure that I'd want to. Handling case insensitivity is fine > > when you're restricting everything to ASCII, but it's rather harder > > when you allow all of Unicode. For instance, U+0069 and U+0049 would > > be considered case-insensitively equal in English, but in Turkish, > > they're different letters; U+0069 upper-cases to U+0130, and U+0049 > > lower-cases to U+0131. > > So what? If you're going to go out of your way to accomadate > a small regional perversion of language semantics, then your > "fetish of multiculturalism" is even more > dangerous than i have previously thought! > > SPECIAL CASES ARE NOT *SPECIAL ENOUGH* TO BREAK THE RULES!
And how does this strange language called English fits into your rules and (no) special cases scheme? http://www.omgfacts.com/lists/3989/Did-you-know-that-ough-can-be-pronounced-TEN-DIFFERENT-WAYS -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
