Please do not get offended, but I think you misunderstood the problem. As I explained above in my first post, because the Turkish language (and hence the Turkish locale) has different capitalization rules regarding "i", even if the desktop entries are composed of ASCII characters, we will get problems when we try to process "i" or "I" characters. (In Turkish: "ı" <-> "I" and "i" <-> "İ".)
How? Let say we are processing "X-AppInstall-Ignore". If we try to use lower() on this string in a non-Turkish locale, we would get "x-appinstall-ignore". However, if we do this in a Turkish locale, then we would get "x-appInstall-Ignore". Notice that the "I" characters stay the same. This is because we can't represent the small dot-less i in ASCII. So, the problem isn't whether a string contains Unicode data. The problem is that we are trying to apply Turkish capitalization rules to a string that contains English/ASCII data. As I noted above Turkish capitalization rules of the "i" are different compared to that of English, and because of this, we are not going to get a string we expect. I am going to attach a small Python script to illustrate this problem. Please run it on your system to see the effects of the Turkish locale. As you will see, the "i" and "I" characters are not capitalized or made lowercase properly. To my knowledge, the only work-around to this problem is to define ASCII-only upper and lower functions and use them whenever the data we are operating on is English. I am sorry; I think I repeated myself a bit, but I really want to get the message across. Please let me know if you have any questions. Regards, M. Vefa Bicakci ** Attachment added: "A script which demonstrates the problem of using Turkish capitalization rules." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/48607325/turkish_locale_test.py -- update-software-center does not work properly in Turkish locales https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/581207 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
