Internalization is hard. I think its too much to expect software written for a specific market to handle all languages in the world.
Fx in danish we have 3 letters (æøå) that is not common in the latin alphabet. I cant go to germany or turkey and expect people to be able to write out those letters when doing input in a local system.
Fun thing I've run into in a Germany-based but increasingly international company: German always spells out umlauts and eszetts when going to lower ASCII for email addresses ("Schäßler" -> "Schaessler"), but Hungarian does not. Not sure how Turkish ö and ü get fully lower-ASCII-ized there, but in Germany, they get spelled out "oe" and "ue" as if they were German ö and ü. This isn't as much of a corner case as one might think - there are a lot of people with Turkish names in Germany.
I’m always amused by these kinds of nonsensical usage for Turkish in Germany (ü->ue) but the thing that really trips people up is that Turkish has two letters that look like i, one with the tittle and one without — in both cases.
Germany relatively adopted an uppercase ß (and got it into Unicode) to try to help with case roundtripping but I’ve never seen it in the wild. And let’s not get into obsolete German Fraktur ligatures like tz or ch which also had no upper case equivalents.
> Germany relatively adopted an uppercase ß (and got it into Unicode)
The parenthetical part is true. It was an uphill battle, but not because of the consortium, but because of what the tropes wiki would describe as executive meddling.
The adoption is not recent, but about 110 years old. You have the wrong idea because of sloppy journalism.
> I’ve never seen it in the wild
I see it all the time. Maybe you are undercounting. Pay attention to non-standard letterforms on hand-written signs, and you also have to include print media where someone substituted lower-case ß in absence of a glyph in a font. This is a typographic mistake, but the intent is clear.
