Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping
Daniel Buncic via Unicode <[email protected]>
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Am 01.12.2024 um 21:29 schrieb Alexander Lange via Unicode: >> In German orthography, double consonants mark the preceding vowel as >> being short (if there isn’t just a mere co-incidence in a compound, >> e. g. “Mausschwanz” (mouse tail)). As the “a” in “Straße” is long, >> you write “ß”; as the “a” in “Gasse” is short, you write “ss”. > > This is the new rule since the 1996 reform though. No, this has always been the rule. However, the rule used to have one exception, namely that at the end of a word and before a consonant you could only have ß, even if the vowel was short. It is only this exception (which was based on long ſ in blackletter and therefore quite obsolete) that was abolished in the 1998 spelling reform. Best wishes, Daniel -- Prof. Dr. Daniel Bunčić =============================================================== Slavisches Institut der Universität zu Köln Weyertal 137, D-50931 Köln Telefon: +49 (0)221 470-90535 Sprechstunden: https://uni.koeln/ENZEB E-Mail: [email protected] = [email protected] Threema: https://threema.id/8M375R5K =============================================================== Homepage: http://daniel.buncic.de/ Academia: http://uni-koeln.academia.edu/buncic ResearchGate: https://researchgate.net/profile/Daniel-Buncic-2 ===============================================================