On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 7:54 PM Dominikus Dittes Scherkl via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote: > But in automatic text processing the old form is simply a bug that needs > to be fixed. The new form has to be the "default" - otherwise > implementations will proliferate this bug forever.
Various systems take for granted that case folding is stable. Differences in how Unicode data is interpreted has open security holes in systems, and while this isn't particularly likely with this change, it is possible, which is part of the reason case-folding is guaranteed to be stable. Such a change can confuse case-insensitive filesystems, or change the interpretation of code in case-insensitive filesystems. The automated default isn't going to change, and German is going to have to join Turkish in that purely default case-conversion just doesn't work for them. -- The standard is written in English . If you have trouble understanding a particular section, read it again and again and again . . . Sit up straight. Eat your vegetables. Do not mumble. -- _Pascal_, ISO 7185 (1991)
