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-rw-r--r--src/util/normalize_identifier.rs10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/util/normalize_identifier.rs b/src/util/normalize_identifier.rs
index 73f246d..feb7239 100644
--- a/src/util/normalize_identifier.rs
+++ b/src/util/normalize_identifier.rs
@@ -58,9 +58,17 @@ pub fn normalize_identifier(value: &str) -> String {
// counterpart is uppercased will result in a different uppercase
// character.
// Hence, to get that form, we perform both lower- and uppercase.
+ // Performing these steps in that order works, but the inverse does not
+ // work.
+ // To illustrate, say the source markdown containes two identifiers `SS`
+ // (U+0053 U+0053) and `ẞ` (U+1E9E), which would be lowercased to `ss`
+ // (U+0073 U+0073) and `ß` (U+00DF), and those in turn would both uppercase
+ // to `SS` (U+0053 U+0053).
+ // If we’d inverse the steps, for `ẞ`, we’d first uppercase without a
+ // change, and then lowercase to `ß`, which would not match `ss`.
codes
.iter()
.collect::<String>()
- .to_uppercase()
.to_lowercase()
+ .to_uppercase()
}