Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping
Ivan Panchenko via Unicode <[email protected]>
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Daniel Buncic via Unicode <[email protected]>: > But they literally turned around the wording > of the previous version with “neben … auch … möglich” (‘in addition to … > also … possible’), which you agree expressed a preference for SS. Anyway, I do prefer “ẞ” and would also be interested whether there is a place (CLDR or elsewhere) to propose it. But I suspect that even in 2017, it was not intended to recommend “SS” over “ẞ” and that they simply added a sentence that dealt with the new capital letter in a potentially misleading fashion. If they had simply turned around the 2017 wording “Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben schreibt man SS. Daneben ist auch die Verwendung des Großbuchstabens ẞ möglich.” to “Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben schreibt man ẞ. Daneben ist auch die Verwendung von SS möglich.”, you might have a point. This is not what happened, though. They changed it to a SINGLE sentence about the POSSIBILITY of “SS” (besides the POSSIBILITY of the (already known) capital letter; and since “SS” is not a single letter, it is not surprising that it is not already listed among the letters).