@AlexisKing It is part of The Rules. In Java you need the UNICODE_CASE pattern compilation flag in conjunction with the case insensitive one. Or embed "(?u)".
@tchrist Unicode is quite a beast. I'm glad I don't need to deal with 99% of these oddities since I do relatively little string manipulation, so I just need to store inputs in a DB and get them back out the same as I put them in.
@tchrist I guess I'm just unsure when I'd really need to do lookups on Unicode. I guess searching, but I never actually roll my own search algorithm at its core.
I find anything I try to write ends up sucking, anyway.
@tchrist String comparison is code smell? ;P No, but seriously, when do you need to do that? Logging in? Not going to be doing normalization on username or password.
Are any of you familiar with the Los Angeles Unified School District, aka LAUSD? They've been in the news for their idiotic "let's buy students iPads" program.
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Not necessarily idiotic. Surely someone got a nice kickback.
Okay. Depends on your point of view, I guess. :P Anyway. Well, apparently, they supposedly still employ some COBOL programmers. I found out about this through... erm, connections.
@InfiniteRecursion I don't think I was actually 100% sure that bluefeet was female, though I thought I remembered knowing something about that.
On a tangent, I wrote something a month or two ago that hit the front page of Hacker News... someone in the comments refers to me as "he" and I correct them... along with a comment actually talking about my post...
NOPE, that entire thread became a bunch of people arguing about gender in technology despite me leaving the conversation promptly afterwards.
Welcome to Server Fault! Please use the Post answer button only for actual answers. You should modify your original question to add additional information. Please take a tour. — Unihedro5 secs ago
I don't get it, why this request is getting so many downvotes and is even put on hold now. This is a quite common error when concatenating SQL strings in some programming languages, so the question and its answers may very well help someone with the same problem. (Tagging this with the programming language in question would have been appropriate though.) — Thorsten Kettner14 mins ago
@ThorstenKettner Just because this may be a common problem doesn't exempt it from moderation. It gets its treatment as a low quality question because it is a low quality question. — Unihedro8 secs ago
The answer has been downvoted by several users -- this is the correct response to inaccurate or poor answers.
Your answer has been upvoted by 47 users and awarded a bounty. This is obviously preferred by the community.
You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet...
Obviously the OP probably isn't too happy with me now
I'm part of the MSE TAVERN ANTI-SPAM CLUB and this question *now deleted was just a link:
Just a link. The entire body of the post was within the outbound link. Can/should the SE quality check block these?
@Unihedro Mods are not for deleting answers with 100+ score just because one user says it's technically incorrect. Downvote incorrect answers, don't call the mods.
Similar to this, but containing more bugginess.
Take a look at this:
The post was grayed out because it received (presumably) 3 offensive flags. The answer was simply a random string of profanities.
Grayed out? Good. Grayed out flag dialog? Not good, but already reported. The editor hazing a...
> Grayed out? Good. Grayed out flag dialog? Not good, but already reported. The editor hazing a higher z-index than the flag dialog. Definite original bug. Please fix.
May the hobgoblins of a thousand Emerson’s nightmares plague you.
@Lamart Why Shog9 is considered the boss you ask? Well, he is know to be the master of all the Medusa Heads. If you can recall how aggravating jumps where with those things flying around consider how you will feel when the master is hunting you.
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TD;DR: Just like how when you cut a worm in half, you don’t get two worms because both parts die being non-viable on its own, so too does cutting a character in half result in dead characters. Characters are atomic and must never not be split.
In chat when something long...
@ShadowWizard Indeed, but why is he making such edits? They are not helpful. What if one tag is deleted, then we have to update all 'related' sections.
> Most of my reputation I earned via all sorts of suggested-edits, and this while none-english-speakers also applies to me. I believe I have a reasonable ratio of rejected-edits, despite what the votes in some of my question/answers about the review process seem to suggest.
I see dead charac�...
TD;DR: Just like how when you cut a worm in half, you don’t get two worms because both parts die being non-viable on its own, so too does cutting a character in half result in dead characters. Characters are atomic and must never not be split.
In chat when something long...
