Philippe Verdy <verdy underscore p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote: > I would have expected to find these mappings: > > 0130; F; 0069; # LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I > -> LATIN SMALL LETTER I > 0130; T; 0130; # LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I > -> LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I > > The rationale being that the locale-neutral mappings would not > differentiate the "standard" small letter (soft-dotted) i, and the > "Turkic" small letter dotless i, for the same reason that they do not > differentiate their uppercase versions; and that the "Turkic" mappings > should maintain this difference in both lowercase and uppercase pairs > of letters.
Turkish and Azeri (and others) can only be cased correctly with locale-specific mappings. The locale-neutral mappings cannot be expected to consider U+0069 'i' and U+0130 'Ä' equivalent, with all the ambiguities that would bring. As you point out, 'i' and 'Ä' are quite different letters. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
