Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping

Ivan Panchenko via Unicode <[email protected]>
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While I also like the capital eszett, the cited rule does not really
designate any form as preferred or secondary. Indeed, I think that the
Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung generally refrains from making
recommendations among allowed alternative spellings (one exception is
the recommendation to avoid misleading hyphenations such as
“Sprecher-ziehung”) so that they can observe which spellings gain
traction. Quote (Merkur.de, 2009): “Der Rat für deutsche
Rechtschreibung hat die neue Duden-Ausgabe kritisiert: "Es ist nicht
Intention des Rates, dass vom Rat beschlossene Varianten in den
allgemeinen Wörterbüchern durch Empfehlungen nur einer Variante
eingeschränkt werden", sagte der Ratsvorsitzende Hans Zehetmair nach
einer Sitzung des Gremiums in München.”
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