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#24425
[PATCH] Don’t cast Unicode to 8-bit when casing unibyte strings
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Reported by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 22:48:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Done: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86 <at> mina86.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #19 received at 24425-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
>> I thought about that but then another corner case is "istanbul\xff"
>> which is a unibyte string with 8-bit bytes.
On Thu, Sep 15 2016, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> And what is the problem in that case?
Disregard. It’s actually fine.
>> I have no strong feelings either way so I’m happy just leaving it as
>> is as well.
> That is fine with me.
>
> Was there some real-life use case where you bumped into this? If so,
> maybe we should discuss that use case, perhaps the solution, if we
> need one, is something other than what we talked about until now.
There’s no real-life use case I’ve stumbled upon.
I’m playing around with src/casefiddle.c adding support for various
corner cases (such as fish becoming Fish or FISH) and was surprised by
(upcase "istanbul") when testing Turkish support.
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ミハウ “𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓪86” ナザレヴイツ
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