Comment by asveikau
4 years ago
I am all for good localization efforts. I've been something of a champion for that whenever I've been around user facing code and people working on it. I also am a bit of a language nerd and not monolingual.
But yes, misunderstanding or not, we should not kill people.
The story in the sibling comment is about a man attacking his daughter's ex because the ex came to apologize about a confusion over the Turkish dotless I. That's still a violent attack that the father could have kept his emotions in check. I don't condone calling the daughter names, even accidentally, but it is not a crime and the right response is not attempted murder.
> but it is not a crime and the right response
I don't know who you're arguing with, but it isn't me. Nobody is saying it was.
I'm saying it is an irrelevant non sequitur.
Imagine that Dad instead misunderstood an instruction related to a financial transaction and lost a ton of money. Would you now be discounting the technical problem that caused the misunderstanding and berating Dad for being foolish?
I'm not discounting the technical problem.
If I were on a code review and I spotted an issue affecting Turkish dotless I, I assure you I would rant about it more than is reasonable.