Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping

Otto Stolz via Unicode <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.unicode.general
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Am 2024-11-26 um 21:41 Uhr hat Daniel Bunčić geschrieben:
> In this light, see the change from the 
> previous version of the rule (§25 E3) to the current one:
…
> “Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben ist neben der Verwendung des
> Großbuchstabens ẞ auch die Schreibung SS möglich: Straße – STRAẞE –
> STRASSE.”

This quote is not entirely correct. Rather, 
<https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/rechtschreibung/6180> (the very source 
Daniel has given)
says:
> E3: Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben ist neben der Verwendung 
> des Großbuchstabens ẞ auch die Schreibung mit SS möglich: 
> Straße – STRASSE – STRAẞE.

So, the wording of the sentence has been reversed, but the example
is given in the same order as in the previous version.

Hence, we cannot safely conclude that the spelling with upper-case ẞ
is preferred over the conventional SS spelling. I rather guess that
the two spellings are considered as equally valid alternatives – but
I’ll try to get an official statement (after having read the rest of
this lenghty discussion).

Best wishes,
    Otto Stolz
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