Pangram: Diacritics and ligatures

[leNEKO]

What about checking if it can handle diacritics and ligatures ? (é è ç œ ß …)

That could seem secondary, but that is a must for lot of languages that use more characters than the plain ASCII (French, Deutsch, Spanish, …)

What do you think ?

[petertseng]

In similar vein, we used to have test with umlaut, and a test with Cyrillic. They were removed in #440 because #428. Same situation or different situation?

Please prefix PR title and commit message with exercise being affected, so it is possible to tell at a glance from git log and PR list https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/pulls . We have so many exercises that this becomes necessary to prefix.

[leNEKO]

Oh that is strictly the same situation than in #428 …
I have read the discussion and can understand the PITA argument that lead to this decision as i undergo these issues on a day basis :)

In fact we can suggest this to students while mentoring their solutions, if we feel that is valuable,
but i wonder if we can set canonical test as "extra/optionnal/bonus" ?

[petertseng]

i wonder if we can set canonical test as "extra/optionnal/bonus"

Good question. I don't know what the standard is, but git grep -i optional and git grep -i bonus do show some interesting results, such as

• https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/blob/master/exercises/complex-numbers/canonical-data.json
• https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/blob/master/exercises/diffie-hellman/canonical-data.json
• https://github.com/exercism/problem-specifications/blob/master/exercises/robot-simulator/canonical-data.json