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Context: The CIA intern picked the wrong tweet to unleash the bot farm on. It's totally natural to talk about Iran in some tweet about El Salvador.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~That shouldnt be possible, this mistake can only be made by humans, to computers these are completely different words~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whomst among us has never forgotten to ensure that a query is case sensitive?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~Its not case sensitivity a and á are just different letters to the computer~~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That would be a great point, if "they will go" and "Iran" weren't both spelled with an á in Spanish.

They are exactly the same spelling.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I had no idea, i guess i will take the L then

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

depending on how you do string comparisons they can be. See Java's Collator class.