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There are two German words that uppercase to the same: Masse (physical unit, measured in kg usually: mass) and Maße (plural of Maß: measurement). So downcasing
by hibbelig 5y ago
There are two German words that uppercase to the same: Masse (physical unit, measured in kg usually: mass) and Maße (plural of Maß: measurement). So downcasing MASSE either requires understanding the text or results in a superposition.
- c0l0 5y agoThese days, we are lucky(?) enough to have ẞ (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S) to avoid that particular conundrum ;)
- ThreeFx 5y agoExcept that it isn't used widely yet, if at all.
- vikingerik 5y agoThis happens even in English. Downcasing POLISH could give you either an Eastern European nationality or the action you do to shine a shoe, and so needs textual understanding to disambiguate.