From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,e55245590c829bef
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!uucp.gnuu.de!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool1.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:08:09 +0100
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US;
 rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Thunderbird/3.1.6
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: _Type vs no _Type
References: <86wroy58ff.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan>
	<iale5p$2f6$1@tornado.tornevall.net>	<86pqup5xfy.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan>
	<becbd7a4-89e6-4d81-b7d8-7d18ac75c1f9@j2g2000yqf.googlegroups.com>
	<86y69d3rec.fsf@gareth.avalon.lan>	<ian4b2$p9h$1@tornado.tornevall.net>
 <82lj5c5ecm.fsf@stephe-leake.org>	<iapnmm$p5j$1@tornado.tornevall.net>
 <op.vlj5fgv0ule2fv@garhos>	<m24obz1nkj.fsf@pushface.org>
 <82zktq4n9b.fsf_-_@stephe-leake.org>	<m2r5f2yu2k.fsf@pushface.org>
 <iatga3$pvp$1@speranza.aioe.org>
	<e8641406-a1bf-4504-b311-68d3cc860ec9@i17g2000vbq.googlegroups.com>
	<87eib06yir.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>	<ib0b7i$jqh$1@news.eternal-september.org>
 <874obvhdp9.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
In-Reply-To: <874obvhdp9.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <4cd4480a$0$6774$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net>
Organization: Arcor
NNTP-Posting-Date: 05 Nov 2010 19:08:10 CET
NNTP-Posting-Host: 93ada213.newsspool3.arcor-online.net
X-Trace: 
 DXC=f;L2kfPFP1Y=>bdbdS?M0YMcF=Q^Z^V3X4Fo<]lROoRQ8kF<OcfhCO[:^U779Q5iDWnc\616M64>ZLh>_cHTX3j]l[[5TW^SQi]
X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:16248
Date: 2010-11-05T19:08:10+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 05.11.10 18:39, Florian Weimer wrote:

> should print a line containing the single character "�".  Can you
> tweak your favorite Ada compiler to produce this output?  Does it
> still work when the program runs under another system-supported
> locale?
>
> Part of those difficulties are related to case insensitivity (but not
> all of them).

The difficulty with character case in the real world
is mostly related to a teaching tradition and its
effect on non-US software.

The tradition produces programmers who think of themselves
as engineers which means 'A' .. 'Z' and nothing else.
And 'A' is 65, please!  So, after decades of programming,
engineers continue to shy away from properly typed notions
of what text characters are.

It's a pride thing, I believe, since you'd have to admit
that you need training in characters.

The usual rationalization is a self-fulfilling prophecy:

We don't have customers complaining about this.