Re: Capital sharp s

Asmus Freytag <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:21:30 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
If this is beta feedback, you need to submit it via the online form,=20
otherwise the Unicode editors won't take notice of it.

A./

On 12/10/2007 1:14 PM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm not sure whether I spotted a bug or a feature in the 5.1.0beta.
> It is about casing of the new 1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S.
>
> My understanding was that with existing text, nothing changes, i.e.,
>
>     toupper("=C3=9F")  =3D "SS"
>     casefold("=C3=9F") =3D "ss"
>
> and that the new capital sharp S would behave as follows:
>
>     tolower("<CAPITAL SHARP S>")=3D  "=C3=9F"
>     casefold("<CAPITAL SHARP S>")=3D "ss"
>
> However, there is no entry in the CaseFolding list nor in
> SpecialCasing for 1E9E in the Unicode 5.1.0beta.  The following
> document does propose an entry in CaseFolding:
>
>     http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3227.pdf
>
> Is this a bug or a feature?
>
> Bye,
>   Henrik
>
>
>
>  =20