[issue14587] Certain diacritical marks can and should be capitalized... e.g. ü --> Ü

[Martin v. Löwis]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

In addition to R. David's remark, it also works fine in a German locale. In general, you cannot know whether the byte '\xe4' denotes 'ä' or some other letter. For example, in KOI8-R, it denotes Д, instead, which already is an upper-case letter. So either do setlocale at the start of your program, or (better) switch to Unicode strings.

Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Dec 27 2010, 00:02:40)
[GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> print u'ä'.upper()
Ä

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