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Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 15:52:23 +0100
From: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
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Am 19.12.2012 15:23, schrieb wxjmfauth@gmail.com:
> But, this is not the problem.
> I was suprised to discover this:
> 
>>>> 'Straße'.upper()
> 'STRASSE'
> 
> I really, really do not know what I should think about that.
> (It is a complex subject.) And the real question is why?

It's correct. LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S doesn't have an upper case
form. However the unicode database specifies an upper case mapping from
ß to SS. http://codepoints.net/U+00DF

Christian