.title() - annoying mistake

[Robert Latest]

Benjamin Schollnick wrote:
>
> I’m sorry Robert, but just because it doesn’t meet your requirements, doesn’t
> mean it’s useless.
>
> I use .title to normalize strings for data comparison, all the time.  It’s a
> perfect alternative to using .UPPER or .lower.  
>
> Right in the documentation, it specifically acknowledges .title working in
> foreign character sets. 
>
> So while I feel for the fact that it doesn’t met your requirements, please
> keep in mind, it does meet other peoples requirements.  
>
> As with everything here, it’s open source.  If you feel that there should be
> a revised version that does met your requirements create it, or gather a
> bunch of people and go the route of SCANDIR and open-source it, and petition
> that it be moved into the standard library.
>
> Since this seems to be bugging you this much, come up with a solution.  

I agree with everything you say. Especially the open source part. But wouldn't
you agree that .title() with all its arbitrary specificity to appear in the
very core of a general purpose language is quite an oddity?

robert