<....> > As far as I remember from my high-school German, is that even if all "ß" may > be > converted to uppercase "SS", not all "SS" in uppercase may be converted to the > lowercase "ß". If the "SS" appears in a combined word (in German, words are > combined by concatenating them, as in Norwegian) where one word ends with "S" > and the second word starts with "S", the result when converted to lowercase > should be "ss" (I am trying to construct an example, but my German is very, > very > rusty....... ;-) >
There is of course no logic in String.toLowerCase() to make "SS" be converted to "ß" based on German grammar rules, since it does a character by character conversion. So "ICH HEISSE BERNT".toLowerCase() will be "ich heisse bernt", and not "ich heiße bernt" ;-) Regards Andreas
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