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Can someone help me? Is this an error? "Switzerland".capitalize() "HELVETICA"

throw0101a 4y ago
Switzerland has four official languages, with the English word "Switzerland" having a particular translation to each one. But if you choose a single official name in one of those languages, it is not fair to the others, so in addition an official name in each language, they have an official in a 'neutral' language: Latin. > Due to its linguistic diversity, Switzerland is known by a variety of native names: Schweiz [ˈʃvaɪts] (German);[note 5] Suisse [sɥis(ə)] (French); Svizzera [ˈzvittsera] (Italian); and Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ, ˈʒviːtsʁɐ] (Romansh).[note 6] On coins and stamps, the Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica – frequently shortened to "Helvetia" – is used instead of the four national languages. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland That's also why the ccTLD of Switzerland is .ch. What you're seeing may be an 'artifact' of that.
- pyuser583 4y ago
  Yeah lots of people confuse that domain for China.
eesmith 4y ago
Odd. I get: "Switzerland".capitalize() 𝔈ℑ𝔇𝔊𝔈𝔑𝔒𝔖𝔖𝔈𝔑𝔖ℭℌ𝔄𝔉𝔗 Maybe my locale is messed up?
- devoutsalsa 4y ago
  Are you in china? That looks like Canton-ese.
  - eesmith 4y ago
    It's a thread of jokes. devoutsalsa started with a joke mixing the two meanings of "capital" using a fake example. I joked that "UniquenessError" isn't the right error, as some countries have more than one capital and two countries have no official capital. One of those two is Switzerland, which has the official Latin name "Confoederatio Helvetica", leading zinekeller joke that the capital form was "HELVETICA". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Switzerland . I pretended my implementation of that non-extent programming language generated "Eidgenossenschaft", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidgenossenschaft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidgenossenschaft . As that's a German word, I decided to use a blackletter typeface, specifically, the Fraktur in Unicode which is meant to encode mathematical alphanumeric symbols, then imply that my locale the reason I got a German word.
    - roxymusic1973 4y ago
      ...and Switzerland is divided into cantons :)
- cardiffspaceman 4y ago
  It looks like Fraktur to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur
  - eesmith 4y ago
    Got it in one.
dane-pgp 4y ago
I think you don't have the right fonts installed.
daveslash 4y ago
I can't tell if you're joking or not! :-o What language/framework is this in? Edit: I now understand this to be a joke. But.., given the craziness that I've seen in the past, this doesn't seem out of the realm of plausibility!

Switzerland has four official languages, with the English word "Switzerland" having a particular translation to each one. But if you choose a single official name in one of those languages, it is not fair to the others, so in addition an official name in each language, they have an official in a 'neutral' language: Latin. > Due to its linguistic diversity, Switzerland is known by a variety of native names: Schweiz [ˈʃvaɪts] (German);[note 5] Suisse [sɥis(ə)] (French); Svizzera [ˈzvittsera] (Italian); and Svizra [ˈʒviːtsrɐ, ˈʒviːtsʁɐ] (Romansh).[note 6] On coins and stamps, the Latin name, Confoederatio Helvetica – frequently shortened to "Helvetia" – is used instead of the four national languages. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland That's also why the ccTLD of Switzerland is .ch. What you're seeing may be an 'artifact' of that.

pyuser583 4y ago
Yeah lots of people confuse that domain for China.

eesmith 4y ago

Odd. I get: "Switzerland".capitalize() 𝔈ℑ𝔇𝔊𝔈𝔑𝔒𝔖𝔖𝔈𝔑𝔖ℭℌ𝔄𝔉𝔗 Maybe my locale is messed up?

devoutsalsa 4y ago
Are you in china? That looks like Canton-ese.
- eesmith 4y ago
  It's a thread of jokes. devoutsalsa started with a joke mixing the two meanings of "capital" using a fake example. I joked that "UniquenessError" isn't the right error, as some countries have more than one capital and two countries have no official capital. One of those two is Switzerland, which has the official Latin name "Confoederatio Helvetica", leading zinekeller joke that the capital form was "HELVETICA". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Switzerland . I pretended my implementation of that non-extent programming language generated "Eidgenossenschaft", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidgenossenschaft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidgenossenschaft . As that's a German word, I decided to use a blackletter typeface, specifically, the Fraktur in Unicode which is meant to encode mathematical alphanumeric symbols, then imply that my locale the reason I got a German word.
  - roxymusic1973 4y ago
    ...and Switzerland is divided into cantons :)
cardiffspaceman 4y ago
It looks like Fraktur to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur
- eesmith 4y ago
  Got it in one.

dane-pgp 4y ago

I think you don't have the right fonts installed.

daveslash 4y ago

I can't tell if you're joking or not! :-o What language/framework is this in? Edit: I now understand this to be a joke. But.., given the craziness that I've seen in the past, this doesn't seem out of the realm of plausibility!