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+= Case Mapping
+
+Some string-oriented methods use case mapping.
+
+In String:
+
+- String#capitalize
+- String#capitalize!
+- String#casecmp
+- String#casecmp?
+- String#downcase
+- String#downcase!
+- String#swapcase
+- String#swapcase!
+- String#upcase
+- String#upcase!
+
+In Symbol:
+
+- Symbol#capitalize
+- Symbol#casecmp
+- Symbol#casecmp?
+- Symbol#downcase
+- Symbol#swapcase
+- Symbol#upcase
+
+== Default Case Mapping
+
+By default, all of these methods use full Unicode case mapping,
+which is suitable for most languages.
+See {Section 3.13 (Default Case Algorithms) of the Unicode standard}[https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/ch03.pdf].
+
+Non-ASCII case mapping and folding are supported for UTF-8,
+UTF-16BE/LE, UTF-32BE/LE, and ISO-8859-1~16 Strings/Symbols.
+
+Context-dependent case mapping as described in
+{Table 3-17 (Context Specification for Casing) of the Unicode standard}[https://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/ch03.pdf]
+is currently not supported.
+
+In most cases, case conversions of a string have the same number of characters.
+There are exceptions (see also +:fold+ below):
+
+  s = "\u00DF" # => "ß"
+  s.upcase     # => "SS"
+  s = "\u0149" # => "ŉ"
+  s.upcase     # => "ʼN"
+
+Case mapping may also depend on locale (see also +:turkic+ below):
+
+  s = "\u0049"        # => "I"
+  s.downcase          # => "i" # Dot above.
+  s.downcase(:turkic) # => "ı" # No dot above.
+
+Case changes may not be reversible:
+
+  s = 'Hello World!' # => "Hello World!"
+  s.downcase         # => "hello world!"
+  s.downcase.upcase  # => "HELLO WORLD!" # Different from original s.
+
+Case changing methods may not maintain Unicode normalization.
+See String#unicode_normalize).
+
+== Options for Case Mapping
+
+Except for +casecmp+ and +casecmp?+,
+each of the case-mapping methods listed above
+accepts optional arguments, <tt>*options</tt>.
+
+The arguments may be:
+
+- +:ascii+ only.
+- +:fold+ only.
+- +:turkic+ or +:lithuanian+ or both.
+
+The options:
+
+- +:ascii+:
+  ASCII-only mapping:
+  uppercase letters ('A'..'Z') are mapped to lowercase letters ('a'..'z);
+  other characters are not changed
+
+    s = "Foo \u00D8 \u00F8 Bar" # => "Foo Ø ø Bar"
+    s.upcase                    # => "FOO Ø Ø BAR"
+    s.downcase                  # => "foo ø ø bar"
+    s.upcase(:ascii)            # => "FOO Ø ø BAR"
+    s.downcase(:ascii)          # => "foo Ø ø bar"
+
+- +:turkic+:
+  Full Unicode case mapping, adapted for the Turkic languages
+  that distinguish dotted and dotless I, for example Turkish and Azeri.
+
+    s = 'Türkiye'       # => "Türkiye"
+    s.upcase            # => "TÜRKIYE"
+    s.upcase(:turkic)   # => "TÜRKİYE" # Dot above.
+
+    s = 'TÜRKIYE'       # => "TÜRKIYE"
+    s.downcase          # => "türkiye"
+    s.downcase(:turkic) # => "türkıye" # No dot above.
+
+- +:lithuanian+:
+  Not yet implemented.
+
+- +:fold+ (available only for String#downcase, String#downcase!,
+  and Symbol#downcase):
+  Unicode case folding,
+  which is more far-reaching than Unicode case mapping.
+
+    s = "\u00DF"      # => "ß"
+    s.downcase        # => "ß"
+    s.downcase(:fold) # => "ss"
+    s.upcase          # => "SS"
+
+    s = "\uFB04"      # => "ﬄ"
+    s.downcase        # => "ﬄ"
+    s.upcase          # => "FFL"
+    s.downcase(:fold) # => "ffl"