Sunday, May 19, 2013

Capital Eye

What will the following line print out?

Console.WriteLine("i".ToUpper());

The answer is obvious: "It depends"

String.ToUpper as well as string.ToLower will use current thread culture, and in most cases it will print "I", but there is two cultures, where capital "i" is not "I", but "İ" - Turkish (tr) and Azeri Latin (az-Latn).

So never ever use ToUpper() and ToLower() in internal comparisons or serialization (I have found this while creating SQL queries, something like "... where id in [1]".ToUpper()), use ToLowerInvariant() and ToUpperInvariant() instead.

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