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Re:String types are fine. How about your code? by sp332 on Thursday November 28, 2013 @10:42AM (#6814954)
Oh, so you're coding around your users' inability to type the letters they actually want? That sounds basically impossible... you'd have to pick letters according to how similar they look instead of their meaning in any context. And, I meant human language! :)
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Re:String types are fine. How about your code? by lmm on Thursday November 28, 2013 @11:05AM (#6815079)
"impossible" isn't good enough - I could write a bunch of hacks that would cover many of the cases, but the programming language (or ideally the unicode standard) should provide a standard answer, rather than each programmer having to implement this themselves.

Human language? English speakers talking about cities in a variety of countries (which should be correctly named, but searchable by english speakers).

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Re:String types are fine. How about your code? by kazagistar on Thursday November 28, 2013 @02:42PM (#6816074)
Impossible does not stop many people from doing exactly this.
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