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Converting strings to upper case is tricky
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While I wrote my last blog entry I remembered another curiosity about localization which I like to mention once in a while in various exciting places on the Internet. Converting strings between upper case and lower case is difficult. It is in fact so difficult that I dont think software will ever get it perfectly right.

Here is the example I like to give. The German word for street is Stra�e. The � character (called Eszett or sharp S) is a curious character. It only exists in lower case form. There is no corresponding upper case character for it. So how do we capitalize the word Stra�e? The grammatically correct capitalization of the word Stra�e is STRASSE. The lower case � character is mapped to two upper case S characters.


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