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197 points ashvardanian | 4 comments | 15 Dec 25 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 1.44s | source
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andersa ◴[16 Dec 25 12:37 UTC] No.46287769[source]▶
From a German user perspective, ICU and your fancy library are incorrect, actually. Mass is not a different casing of Maß, they are different characters. Google likely changed this because it didn't do what users wanted.
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1. b2ccb2 ◴[16 Dec 25 12:56 UTC] No.46287929[source]▶
The confusion likely stems from the relatively new introduction of the capitalized ẞ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F

Maß capitalized (used to be) MASS.

Funnily enough, Mass means one liter beer (think Oktoberfest).

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2. andersa ◴[16 Dec 25 13:21 UTC] No.46288188[source]▶
It's strange, because I would expect "maß" as the case insensitive search to match "MASS" in the search text, but "mass" should not match "Maß".
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3. looperhacks ◴[16 Dec 25 13:21 UTC] No.46288190[source]▶
Both Maß and Mass are valid spellings for a liter of beer ;) Not to confuse it with Maß, which just means any measurement, of course.
4. janc_ ◴[16 Dec 25 22:35 UTC] No.46295593[source]▶
I think all of those should be "tentative matches" for each other.