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Dotted and dotless I in Turkish & Azerbaijani, etc.

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:16 am
by dfhtextpipe
Please first read this article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I

Languages such as Turkish and Northern Azeri have both dotted and dotless letter I in their Latin-based alphabets.

This has implications for letter case.
Such alphabets break the familiar case relationship between uppercase I and lowercase i.
Instead they have as a upper and lower case pairs:
  • I and ı
    İ and i
For TextPipe filters which have as an option 'use case sensitive', this has practical implications. Have they been thought about?

Re: Dotted and dotless I in Turkish & Azerbaijani, etc.

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 9:07 am
by DataMystic Support
It has not been addressed.

The character casing routines do take into account the current locale, so if Microsoft has coded this correctly, this will work for a computer in Turkey or Azerbaijan.