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by chriswarbo 1087 days ago
> Modern systems handle case just fine

Modern systems tend to support international character sets (UTF-8, etc.), where the idea of 'case' makes things more complicated than ASCII; and probably more trouble than it's worth. Even if we stick with latin characters, are 'uppercase' and '𝖀𝓟ℙ𝗘ℝℂ𝙰𝒮𝓔' the same identifier?