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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by frivoal on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @02:26AM (#9223925)
Absolutely. So i/ı/I/I do have their own codepoints. But the rest of the letters, which are the same, don't. Just like han unification. Letters which are the same are the same, and those which are not are not, even if they look pretty close.
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Re:I Can’t Write My Name in Unicode by estebank on Wednesday March 18, 2015 @02:57PM (#9227875)
The thing is that the turkish "i" and "I" don't have their own codepoints, it is the same one as latin "i" and "I", when they should have been their own codepoints representing the same glyphs. That way going from I to ı and from i to İ wouldn't be a locale dependant problem.
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