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Does Your Code Pass the Turkey Test? (2008)
Over the past 6 years or so, I’ve failed each item on “The Turkey Test.” It’s very simple: will your code work properly on a person’s machine in or around th...
Per the Unicode standard, our lowercase “i” becomes “İ” (U+0130 “Latin Capital Letter I With Dot Above”) when it moves to uppercase. “The Turkey Test” poses a very simple question, but yet is full of surprises for guys like me who didn’t realize all the little details. Note: Special thanks to my coworker, Evan, for calling the 3rd type of error “Turkeys.” Also, thanks to Chip and Dan Heath for the “Sinatra Test” idea.
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