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Gary Gregory
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Gary Gregory's personal blog at garygregory.wordpress.com covers programming. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this post on Java's lowercase behaviour in the Turkish locale, where capital I becomes dotless ı, so "INFO".lower() does not equal "info". Cited as a reference, not praised.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Software construction, the web, and other techs
Most-linked posts?
- /2015/11/03/java-lowercase-conversion-turkey/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-16
What Hacker News says?
See also https://garygregory.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/java-lowercase-...
Comment linking /2015/11/03/java-lowercase-conversion-turkey/
on “In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"”Submitted The Final Kiss in Java as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://garygregory.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/java-lowercase-... In the Turkish locale, the Unicode LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I becomes a LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I. That’s not a lowercase “i”.
Comment linking /2015/11/03/java-lowercase-conversion-turkey/
on “In the Turkish locale, "INFO".lower() != "info"”