# Uppercase letter detection appears to be ignoring accented letters

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/uppercase-letter-detection-appears-to-be-ignoring-accented-letters/26763>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [March 25, 2015, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uppercase-letter-detection-appears-to-be-ignoring-accented-letters/26763 "2015-03-25T11:35:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![RaceProUK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/raceprouk/32/115844_2.png) [@RaceProUK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RaceProUK)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2015, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uppercase-letter-detection-appears-to-be-ignoring-accented-letters/26763/4 "2015-03-25T15:15:11Z")

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True I guess, but IIRC, the .NET Framework has an API for asking whether a letter is upper or lower case; does whatever Discourse runs on (Ruby On Rails?) not have an equivalent? Or would that slow things down too much?

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