PHP Bug #18556 : Setting locale to 'tr_TR' lowercases class names

Words fail me.

I is not capital of i in Turkish. Instead, İ is capital of i and I is capital of ı. They are two different letters.

It's kind of hard not to bash PHP for crap like this.

Yes, the PHP ecosystem is friendly, easy, cheap, etc. etc.

But as a programming language per se... Come on, PHP.

It is likely no one who regularly commits to PHP is effected by this issue and it requires non trivial changes to the way PHP works to fix.

Granted given the usual pragmatism of PHP someone should have just hacked something in by now.

It's funny, the first thing I thought is "someone was having trouble with the turkish I and tried a hackaround, and now it's unfixable."

I blame Atatürk. If I had a time machine, I'd skip killing Hitler and travel back to the language reform time. "Do you know how much trouble this is going to cause us? Reuse the X, make one a dotted e. I don't care, this is going to fuck everything up!"