Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping
"Mark E. Shoulson via Unicode" <[email protected]>
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I remember when the debate about adding ẞ was ongoing here on this list. There were lots of old fonts shown which had a distinct uppercase ß. I remember that some insisted there was no such letter, pointing to the pronouncements of the then-current Große Duden, which said that ß capitalizes to SS, and yet the cover of *that very book*, in all-capital letters an inch high, clearly showed its title as DER GROẞE DUDEN. We can find the discussion in the list archives somewhere. Suffice to say, ẞ does seem to be a real thing and seems to have been so even before it was recognized. ~mark