#5559 HIGH Update.: change language to Turkish, machine keeps rebooting

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#5559: change language to Turkish, machine keeps rebooting
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  Reporter:  chihyu  |       Owner:  marco   
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new     
  Priority:  high    |   Milestone:  Update.1
 Component:  sugar   |     Version:          
Resolution:          |    Keywords:  review+ 
  Verified:  0       |    Blocking:          
 Blockedby:          |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 If the result of u'VOID'.lower() is not locale-dependent, then Python is
 buggy.

 I just tested the locale itself on Fedora 8, directly via C. Somehow I
 forgot to test Python, but that will match up with C unless it is buggy.

 The tr_TR.utf8 locale (and tr_TR.UTF-8 alias) treat the tittle (dot) like
 any random accent mark. The dotted/undotted distinction is fully preserved
 when converting between uppercase and lowercase.

 The en_US.utf8 locale (and en_US.UTF-8 alias) will mangle Turkish letters
 on case changes. A round trip through towupper and towlower will turn a
 dotted capital I into an undotted one, and will turn an undotted lowercase
 I into a dotted one. (you always end up with ASCII)

 The C locale refuses to make case changes to any non-ASCII character. All
 non-ASCII passes through.

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