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July 27, 2004
Failures with Turkish
Failures with Turkish: Interesting, and concise... I had known that Turkish had some special difficulties in application development, but hadn't understood them until reading Tex Texin's article. Mappings and fonts and such seem to be fine, but the unique problem in Turkish seems to be that the case-insensitive link between "i" and "I" gets broken. Turkish has a special undotted lower-case "i" to match its undotted upper-case "I", and a new dotted upper-case "I" to match its dotted lower-case "i". When such a font is used, the new "i != I" rule can often break program logic. [Thanks to Paul Hastings for the link... more resources at Omniglot, as well as up a level at Tex's site, including his marketing mistranslations.]
Posted by John Dowdell at July 27, 2004 3:39 PM