In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"

Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by ccccc0 on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:46PM (#24181636)

French here, I recall my primary school textbook where they said something along the lines of "sometimes accents are dropped, that's sort of fine as long as it doesn't change the meaning". They gave the example of a fictitious newspaper whose headline was "UN POLICIER TUE": depending on the accent (tué/tue) it means either "a policeman kills" or "a policeman killed".

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by dongvsascript on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:28PM (#24183299)

american here who's lived in france and still use an azerty keyboard because it lets me type in both languages. how do you get a capital A with an accent on an azerty keyboard?

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by nargek on Monday August 17, 2020 @06:58AM (#24186006)

Easily ? You don't, with the most common azerty keyboard you have to use : Ctrl+Alt+7 Shift+A. That's why there is a new standard for azerty keyboard the "NF Z 71-300" that is better with accent and stuff like æ,œ,Æ,Œ,«» etc.

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by dongvsascript on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:12PM (#24190018)

Damn it. That's why I couldn't figure it out for years. You can't.. Is the new keyboard standard being used anywhere? Like if I walk into a common office in france and sit down at a laptop - is it likely to be using the new keyboard layout?

What's weird is I sometimes, even 10 years ago, would get an email from people in France, and it would have an accented A. Like, how did they do that..

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by nargek on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:27PM (#24192369)

i know that LDLC is selling one of these [1] ... and that's it, i don't even think it's coming to laptop anytime soon.

[1] https://www.ldlc.com/fiche/PB00279741.html

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by smnrchrds on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:52PM (#24183416)

Not the answer to your question, but this is why I think Quebec uses accented capitals more than France. In Canadian French layout, there is a key for à. Simply using Shift+à gives you À.

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Re:In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info" by dongvsascript on Sunday August 16, 2020 @11:02PM (#24183455)

classic canada, fixing the keyboard. now all that's left is above 69.

korean is worse. they base off of 10k, not 1000. so a million is hundred ten_thousand. bagman. but as bad as that is, it's no 97 amirite.

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