[TYPO3-core] RFC: Fix Bug 6428 - strtoupper doesn't work with turkish i

[Steffen Kamper]

"Ingo Renner" <ingo at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1193602548.8463.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi Masi,
>
> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>
>>> you shouldn't use non ASCII in markers (or other places) anyways if it's 
>>> not supported.
>
>> Anyway, the problem is that in Turkish the upper case form of i (small I 
>> with dot) is NOT I (upper case I without dot), it's I (upper case I with 
>> dot). OTHO the lower case form of I (upper case I without dot) is i 
>> (small case I withot dot).
>
> Well to me it seems that Steffen - or who ever found that issue -  used 
> the markers in lowercase in the templates (###some_marker_with_i###) which 
> then gets transformed (strtoupper) to the wrong character.
> In fact I guess this could be solved by simply using the markers in the 
> right way (###SOME_MARKER_WITH_I###). The uppercase I is already uppercase 
> and thus I suspect it won't change.
>

Ingo - in the template of indexed_search the markers are uppercase, in the 
pi-class all is handled with lowercase and transformed to uppercase.
This is the reason why it doesn't work, please look in the diff to see the 
changes.

> If that is the case I don't see why we should support that lazyness and 
> spent time on it.
>
> The other thing is that I consider it a bug in php if the transformation 
> goes wrong, which again wouldn't be our task to fix it and maybe get a new 
> problem when php gets fixed and breaks our "fix"...
>
and prevent turkish (and armenian) sites to work proper until php6?

vg  Steffen