alt Hacker NewsIt isn't until it is, how would you write it when ß isn't available on the keyboard?
Which is why we also have to deal with the ue, ae, oe kind of trick, also known as Ersatzschreibweise.
Then German language users from de-CH region, consider Mass the correct way.
Yeah, localization and internalization is a mess to get right.
Case insensitivity is localized like anything else. I and i are equivalent, right? Not if you’re doing Turkish, then it’s I and ı, and İ and i.
In practice you can do pretty well with a universal approach, but it can’t be 100% correct.