# 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:** [2015 年 3 月 25 日午前 11:35 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:** ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)\
**Post date:** [2015 年 3 月 25 日午後 3:28 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/uppercase-letter-detection-appears-to-be-ignoring-accented-letters/26763/5 "2015-03-25T15:28:54Z")

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Ruby provides an API to do this, and we use it, however it is only effective for ASCII. So when non-ASCII characters are present we skip the check. We were bitten by this previously with foreign languages.

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