Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 8310] New: USB device names are not sanitized for UTF-8

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 08:15:44AM +0200, Robert Marquardt wrote:
> Alan Stern schrieb:
> 
> > "full handling of Unicode"?  You must be kidding.  Do you have any idea 
> > how difficult it is to do something as simple as converting between 
> > lower- and uppercase?
> 
> If it is required somewhere in the kernel then it has to be implemented.
> Yes, i know how hard it is. 100K of tables and 255K of source for a 
> Pascal implementation i know. That includes a regular expression parser, 
> but still it is a big chunk of source.

 Ignoring, for the moment, the question of why the *kernel* should
ever need to be able to in_general convert from lower- to uppercase,
the problem is harder than you imply.  Most of us think 'i' should
become 'I' but I'm fairly sure that turkish speakers think it should
be 'İ' (with a dot - 'I' for them is the uppercase version of 'ı'
without a dot).

Ken
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