Case-insensitive string equality

[Gregory Ewing]

Stefan Ram wrote:
>   But of
>   course, actually the rules of orthography require "Maße" or
>   "Masse" and do not allow "MASSE" or "MASZE", just as in
>   English, "English" has to be written "English" and not
>   "english" or "ENGLISH".

While "english" is wrong in English, there's no rule
against using  "ENGLISH" as an all-caps version.

Are you saying that all-caps text is not allowed in
German? If so, that's very different from English.

-- 
Greg