On this day seventeen years ago I learned something about locales and Turkish that has scarred me for life: I is not always uppercase i!

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/10/15/strcasecmp-in-turkish/

strcasecmp in Turkish

A friendly user submitted the (lib)curl bug report #2154627 which identified a problem with our URL parser. It doesn't treat "file://" as a known protocol if the locale in use is Turkish. This was the beginning of a minor world-moving revelation for me. Of course this is already known to mankind and I'm just behind, … Continue reading strcasecmp in Turkish →

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@bagder Also featured in this brilliant talk from Dylan Beattie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajfb5LSbQVM

There's No Such Thing As Plain Text • Dylan Beattie • YOW! 2023

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