[MC-121433] Non English letters are lower case in controls setting, while English are upper case

The bug

1.13 snapshots now show letters depending on selected keyboard. But there is this inconsistency here, as seen on attached image.

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marcono1234 2017-11-08T21:59:17Z

Appears to not be fixed in 17w45a

For example "ä" is still lowercase. However there could be problems when using the uppercase version of characters since for some the uppercase version is a completely different character, see https://unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/SpecialCasing.txt. For example "ß".toUpperCase() → "SS".

violine1101 2017-11-08T22:29:47Z

ß is a very special case here, as recently the writing rules have changed to also allow the uppercase version ẞ, albeit it's not available as a key on a standard keyboard. IMHO, keep ß lowercased here.

However, ä clearly has a corresponding uppercase version, which is Ä. Reopening.

marcono1234 2017-11-08T22:54:38Z

Defining a special case for "ß" will likely not solve this problem. The document linked in my comment contains other cases as well and there are likely keyboards which can write some of these characters.

Edit: However for some of them the uppercase version might just consist of a character and a diacritic in which cause the uppercase version would be correct (but Minecraft would not render it correctly).