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Comment: Edited by sciSpider Java v3.0

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This noncompliant code example uses the locale sensitive {{String.toUpperCase()}} method to convert an html tag to uppercase. This produces the string ""T?TLE"" in the Turkish locale wherein '?' is the Latin capital letter 'I' with a dot above the character \[[API 06|AA. Java References#API 06]\]. 

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"title""title".toUpperCase();

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This compliant solution explicitly sets the locale to English to avoid the unexpected result.

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"title""title".toUpperCase(Locale.ENGLISH);

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\[[API 06|AA. Java References#API 06]\] Class {{String}}

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FIO36-J. Do not create multiple buffered wrappers on an InputStream            09. Input Output (FIO)            09. Input Output (FIO)