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Because it was up voted. HN likes linguistic things, and typographical things, and Unicode things, and this is all three. And the weird .toUpper behavior requi
by roywiggins 9y ago
Because it was up voted.
HN likes linguistic things, and typographical things, and Unicode things, and this is all three. And the weird .toUpper behavior required by ß->SS is an old example of string-handling pitfalls that non-German programmers probably remember (and obviously German ones know about the issue!)