Re: Rock Paper Scissors Code Bug?

On 19/12/2025 02:51, Thomas Passin wrote:
> On 12/18/2025 1:34 PM, Gregg Drennan wrote:
>> No chatbot involved.  I was typing this on my phone in bed last night 
>> and didn't have a Python interpreter handy that I could verify this 
>> with.  I will certainly check this.
>
> I apologise.  I thought your post sounded chatbotty, especially at the 
> end. I have to admit I only tested with punctuation, not a wide range 
> of unicode characters, but heck that's what your post mentioned.
>
> Apparently if you want to use casefold() to compare characters, you 
> should call it on both, and not assume it will just give you 
> lowercase. There are only a few, very few, characters where casefold() 
> and lower() give different results. Rare, but the German ß is one of 
> them.  If you program using a German keyboard you probably know this 
> (I don't and didn't).
>
Strictly speaking, you might also need to normalise the strings 
(`unicodedata.normalize`) because, for example, "é" can be 1 codepoint 
("LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE") or 2 codepoints ("LATIN SMALL LETTER 
E" followed by "COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT").

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