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Is it? I read it as: depending on culture, the name may be either case sensitive, or not. (alternatively - someone's name may use alphabet with no concept of "case")



I wouldn't call it satire; they are, as the title indicates, falsehoods. That is, if your code makes any of the assumptions listed, then you're handling names in a way that inevitably won't work for users of certain cultures.




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