Add IdnMapping.GetAscii and currency symbol behavioral difference examples to ICU globalization breaking change#52132
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Add IdnMapping.GetAscii and currency symbol behavioral difference examples to ICU globalization breaking change
Mar 10, 2026
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The .NET 5 ICU globalization breaking change article lacked concrete behavioral examples showing how switching from NLS to ICU affects real-world code.
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IdnMapping.GetAsciiexample — ICU lowercases all domain name labels as part of ACE processing; NLS preserves casing for ASCII-only input:The currency symbol example (
CultureInfo("de")+{0:C}→¤instead of€) was already present in the file—no change needed there.Updated
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