Case-insensitive string equality

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 04:18:59 EDT 2017


On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
> Steve D'Aprano schrieb am 02.09.2017 um 02:31:
>> - the German eszett, ß, which has two official[1] uppercase forms: 'SS'
>> and an uppercase eszett
>
> I wonder if there is an equivalent to Godwin's Law with respect to
> character case related discussions and the German ß.

Given that it's such a useful test case, I think it's inevitable (the
first part of Godwin's Law), but not a conversation killer (the second
part, and not (AFAIK) part of the original statement). Either that, or
the Turkish Iı/İi.

ChrisA



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