[Tutor] While loop issue, variable not equal to var or var

[Alan Gauld]

On 12/07/14 13:19, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Because the person might have typed any of:
>
> grosse
> große

> etc., and you want to accept them all, just like in English

The bit I was missing was that a German user might use the ss version 
instead the ß so testing for either of them alone is insufficient.
lower() or casefold() would deal with the mixed case variations, but 
lower() would not fix the ss v ß issues.

Thanks,

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