First of all, I'd like to point out that I absolutely agree with the (currently highest-rated) answer of @codaddict.
But I wanted to do an experiment, so here it is:
It's not a formal proof, but this code ran for me without ever reaching the inside of the if (using JDK 1.6.0 Update 16 on Ubuntu):
Edit: Here's some updated code that handles Locales as well:
import java.util.Locale;
public class ToLowerTester {
public final Locale locale;
public ToLowerTester(final Locale locale) {
this.locale = locale;
}
public String findFirstStrangeTwoLetterCombination() {
char[] b = new char[2];
for (char c1 = 0; c1 < Character.MAX_VALUE; c1++) {
b[0] = c1;
for (char c2 = 0; c2 < Character.MAX_VALUE; c2++) {
b[1] = c2;
final String string = new String(b);
String lower = string.toLowerCase(locale);
if (string.length() != lower.length()) {
return string;
}
}
}
return null;
}
public static void main(final String[] args) {
Locale[] locales;
if (args.length != 0) {
locales = new Locale[args.length];
for (int i=0; i<args.length; i++) {
locales[i] = new Locale(args[i]);
}
} else {
locales = Locale.getAvailableLocales();
}
for (Locale locale : locales) {
System.out.println("Testing " + locale + "...");
String result = new ToLowerTester(locale).findFirstStrangeTwoLetterCombination();
if (result != null) {
String lower = result.toLowerCase(locale);
System.out.println("Found strange two letter combination for locale "
+ locale + ": <" + result + "> (" + result.length() + ") -> <"
answered 2010-03-01T17:05:36.190