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It's interesting that the data doesn't have values with the Turkish dotted or dotless I, ie the one in İstanbul, İbrahim, or Diyarbakır. Seems pretty important to store people's names correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I



Then again -- if they can't figure out how to index their databases... then most likely they probably can't out how to do locales and character sets properly, either.


Ah! And this ironically relevant 2008 post from Coding Horror about testing your code in the Turkish locale.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-turkey/




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