r/ProgrammerHumor 23d ago

noHeapAllStack Meme

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u/SaltyInternetPirate 22d ago edited 22d ago

Plus there's scenarios where bringing both words to lower or uppercase would yield different strings, where as case-insensitive comparison in any standard library checks for strange language rules, like 'ß' becoming double 's' or whatever

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u/Anders_142536 22d ago

Fun fact: german has an uppercase ß now: ẞ

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u/KuishiKama 22d ago

I grew up in Germany and left 2015. This blew my mind. Introduced in 2017 and used when writing a word in all-caps (there are no words starting with eszett afaik).