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Is that actually the right thing to do, or is it another mistake?

• lmm 12y ago
  As you said and linked elsewhere in the thread, the unicode consortium takes the viewpoint that there should be one codepoint for each glyph, even if that glyph has multiple semantic meanings in different languages (e.g. "U"). So by that standard they should probably be the same codepoint, but in that case it's hard to argue that roman capital I and turkish capital dotless I should be different codepoints. Alternately you could argue that ohm symbol shouldn't lowercase to omega, which, maybe. I think the right view is simply that lower- and upper-casing aren't always well defined, are culturally and contextually dependent, and are probably something you should only ever be doing for display, not for semantic purposes. (If you want to do case-insensitive comparisons of strings, Unicode comes with algorithms for that which do a better job than upper- or lower-casing the strings before comparing)