[Tutor] While loop issue, variable not equal to var or var

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 02:39:12PM +0200, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
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> Very interesting advice. Wasn't aware at all of this feature of casefold.
> As a native German speaker, I have to say that your last two examples 
> involving the capital ß are pretty contrived: although the capital ß is 
> part of unicode, it is not an official part of the German alphabet and 
> nobody is using it (in fact, I had to look it up in Wikipedia now to 
> learn what that letter is).

Interestingly, although capital ß is not official, it used to be a lot 
more common than it is now, and never quite disappeared:

http://opentype.info/blog/2011/01/24/capital-sharp-s/


Now that the common fonts provided on Windows support the capital sharp 
s, I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to come back into vogue. 
Typesetters will be at the forefront, since they care about the look of 
things:

http://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/localize-your-font-german-capital-sharp-s



> An even better example than the rest of yours would be Kuß (German for 
> the noun kiss), which only people above 30 (like me) still spell this 
> way, but younger people spell Kuss since the official rules have changed 
> over the last 10 years.
> In this particular case, you should definitely be prepared to handle 
> "Kuss" and "Kuß" as legal input.

Good example! Thank you!


-- 
Steven