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Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Mar 30, 2019 21:51 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel by mirabilos
Parent article: Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

> And no, the turkish case is not theoretical. They have words which only differ in the dot above the i, and in one case, one of the two words is normal and one a rather crass insult, which led to (IIRC) a knife attack (well, some kind of real-life attack at the person) because they had no dotless i on their keyboard when texting.
This is the story: https://gizmodo.com/a-cellphones-missing-dot-kills-two-pe...

Although I personally wouldn't blame the cellphone here.


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Working with UTF-8 in the kernel

Posted Mar 30, 2019 22:43 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

The situation was bad.

Bad technology made it worse.

The cellphone doesn't get off scot-free here.


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