Monocasing is dangerous, given that most systems assume that ASCII behaves
in a particular way. In particular, the Turkish I causes all kinds of grief
("why can't I open my INI-file?"). There is also that other source of much
mirth and merriment: contracting/expanding case variations. For example,
the comparison of "STRASSE" and "Straße" should return equal in German
case-insensitive comparisons.
In reality, the correct way to do this is to retrieve a collation key for
each character and use this instead of assuming that performing an
operation on the character itself will generate an inherent comparison
value.
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