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What's the deal with `capitalize` being deprecated, especially with such a verbose replacement?  Capitalizing a string is really common, and it's so weird to remove it from the standard lib entirely.

Same thing with the other uppercase/lowercase methods for String and Char.  Every deprecated method literally uses the exact same behavior as the "better" version on the JVM, yet they're still deprecated?

it's not the same behavior. note `Locale.default()` which matches Java behavior but isn't multiplatform and has been considered a misdesign

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTLC-295/Remove-default-locale-dependent-case-conversion-API|https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTLC-295/Remove-default-locale-dependent-case-conversion-API>

There's an interesting article of Sam Cooper about a localization issue: <https://sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237|https://sam-cooper.medium.com/the-country-that-broke-kotlin-84bdd0afb237>

It's also mentioned in this short talk: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxoKilLSJ4k>

<@U02JEG13Z1P> thanks for the link, that's a great well detailed article! I still think it's annoying to not have a function for that but at least now I know the reason behind it haha