- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:10:52 -0500
- To: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- CC: Eric Uhrhane <ericu@google.com>, public-webapps@w3.org
On 1/11/11 8:02 PM, Glenn Maynard wrote: > The infamous Turkish "I" comes to mind as a portability problem: code > could reasonably create "Info" in one place and read it as "info" in > another, which would be different files in a Turkish locale. Windows > still treats "I" and "i" as the same letter even in Turkish codepages, > but a Linux glibc-based implementation wouldn't. For what it's worth. HTML5 typically uses "ASCII case-insensitivity" to avoid this problem. But they're working with strings that are mostly ASCII, which may not be the case for filenames.... -Boris
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