Would you like signs with those chars?
Would you like signs with those chars?
Posted Oct 25, 2022 9:48 UTC (Tue) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935)In reply to: Would you like signs with those chars? by dvdeug
Parent article: Would you like signs with those chars?
The typical example is configuration files where you *can* restrict identifiers to ASCII. Using locale functions will cause a mess for Turkish and Azerbaijani speakers, thanks to the "dotless i" and "dotted I" characters in their alphabets.
Posted Oct 25, 2022 15:46 UTC (Tue)
by dvdeug (guest, #10998)
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Would you like signs with those chars?
You can restrict it to ASCII, but the question is*should* you. The dotted I / dotless i issues only matter if you're doing case-insensitive comparisons, which isn't a very Unix thing.