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Re:Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's ta... by DocTomoe on Thursday September 27, 2018 @01:47AM (#18082328)
Yeah, good luck with changing hundreds of established, life-or-death-systems, most of them actually embedded in planes in the airline industry worldwide, at the same cutover date, to suddenly support mixed-case script.

Have a one-hour watch to understand what kind of beast you are wrestling here: https://media.ccc.de/v/31c3_-_6308_-_en_-_saal_1_-_201412281...

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Re:Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's ta... by michaelt on Thursday September 27, 2018 @06:27AM (#18083279) 

  good luck with changing hundreds of established, 
  life-or-death-systems, most of them actually
  embedded in planes
Seems to me that's precisely the sort of thing the NTSB _is_ supposed to be able to do?

Of course IMHO a mere change of case doesn't go far enough.

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Re:Abstract of the NTSB Report on Air Canada flight 759's ta... by DocTomoe on Thursday September 27, 2018 @07:14AM (#18083436)
You do realize that US planes still have to be able to fly to countries other than the US, and vice versa, right?
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