Re: [charmod-norm] Case Folding (Section 2.1) - Sharp S example

Note that "locale-dependent" as used above, is different from 
"language sensitive" (or "language dependent") as used further on in 
the text... at least unless one defines languages very precisely by 
place and/or time.   The Turkic example, which is cited so often that 
many people believe it is the only case (and is cited in TUS as 
"locale-dependent" when it is really language-dependent), is 
ultimately not a lot different from the cases in which, while "ß" can 
always be transformed into "ss" (even if the result is seen as a 
serious spelling error on some locales), "ss" cannot be transformed in
 some cases to "ß" without loss of meaning and/or silly states.  

The Unicode Standard seems to say that the main application of case 
folding is for caseless matching (subsection of that name in TUS 7.0, 
Section 5.18) and that using case folding for mapping and replacement 
operations is unwise.  It seems to me that point is important; it is 
hard to find or deduce from this section.

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