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Why do some characters not uppercase or lowercase correctly?

April 26, 2017characters correctly lowercase uppercase

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Why do some characters not uppercase or lowercase correctly?

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It seemed like a good idea at the time, to keep the semantics the same for standard strings, when Perl got Unicode support. While it might be repaired in the future, we now have to deal with the fact that Perl treats equal strings differently, depending on the internal state.