I agree with you, Ceejay, but of course the computer can't tell why you
capitalized.

I think it's fair to say that, for most people, the capitalization that
the text was entered with is the capitalization it should be displayed
with. 

In addition, for the purposes of comparison, it should be possible to
search with case independence and diacritical-mark independence (that
is, the letter "e" should match any of èéêë, etc).

To do this in full generality requires a knowledge of the underlying
language. For instance, in Hungarian, these are considered 3 different
letters:
s
sz
cs

This is in general a hard problem to solve. You don't always know what
language a song title is in. Even with ID3 tags, which contain a
language descriptor, there are songs where the title isn't all in one
language. I think there was an example recently of a song that was part
Hebrew, part English ... the question came up, which way should it
scroll ...

So many questions, grasshopper.


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