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gokhan on July 2, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: PHP Bug #18556 : Setting locale to 'tr_TR' lowerca...

That's why, for example, .NET world has .ToLowerInvariant() and .ToUpperInvariant() and developers are advised to use it when doing internal stuff. Interpreting / parsing a language is clearly an internal task and shouldn't be affected by locale changes.

TazeTSchnitzel on July 2, 2012 | [–]

Yep. .NET also has a nice set of string comparison classes for dictionary lookups to avoid exactly this kind of thing.

Draiken on July 2, 2012 | [–]

Unfortunately you can't compare .NET to PHP. Ever.

billpg on July 2, 2012 | [–]

They just did.

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