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> > the case conversions seem not hopelessly language dependant
>
> There are many tricky points.
>
> For example, Dutch has the letter ij. (U+0132, U+0133)
> A typewriter has a single key for it. When the symbol is not
> available one uses the two symbols i and j, but these are
> capitalized together. A city is called IJmuiden.
>
The Dutch IJ could at least theoretically be handled with
U+0132/U+0133.
However, the classic example of Turkish:
Upper case Lower case
U+0049 U+0131
U+0130 U+0069
... cannot be handled in any locale-independent way.
-hpa
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