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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.