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Yes, it would be nice to have universal "uppercase" and "lowercase" rules, but in the real world, collation rules are crazy, arbitrary, and damn near impossible
by kstenerud 12y ago
Yes, it would be nice to have universal "uppercase" and "lowercase" rules, but in the real world, collation rules are crazy, arbitrary, and damn near impossible to get right. Now try to get it right in EVERY locale around the world, because if you don't, you open a big gaping security hole or data corruption bug.
- thomasahle 12y agoIndeed "uppercase/lowercase" is a pretty anglocentric way phrase things. Who know what sort of cases somebody might come up with in their next language. "Normalization" is properly a more general term, but who says a normalization always exists?