.net micro (µ) greek letter uppercase issue

Question

I have the following code:

 string firstMicro = \"aa \\u00b5 bb\";
 string secondMicro = \"aa \\u03bc bb\";

 Assert.IsFalse(firstMicro == secondMicro);

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Answer 1

Some lowercase letters have the same uppercase equivalent. Sorry, but that's how Unicode is defined.

For example, as you can see in the official UnicodeData.txt, both U+0069 (i) and U+0131 (ı) have U+0049 (I) for uppercase.

What is the exact problem you're having? Maybe we can help.

Answer 2

A microsecond is still a µSEC after upper-casing. Having it upcased to MSEC would fatally alter its meaning. Which is why there are two codepoints for the glyph.