On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Maiorana, Jason wrote:
> there doesnt seem to be any method in unicode for mapping
> "S" "S" -> "small sharp s"
> when lowercasing.
> Is this not a requirement for German locales?
Unicode doesn't do anything about it (for reasons others have already
explained), but doesn't forbid it either.
Case transformations are necessarily language-specific, and sometimes also
context-dependent (an extreme case being that English "POLISH" lowercases
to either "polish" or "Polish" depending on its meaning!), and can't be
summed up in a simple universal algorithm.
Henry Spencer
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