Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping
David Starner via Unicode <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 3:42 PM Markus Scherer <[email protected]> wrote: > No, that one is clearly a lowercase ß. I disagree; that's clearly an eszett, between other uppercase characters, and unless there's some linguistic weirdness going on, like iPhone or eBook, that's a capital letter. Glyphs have to be taken in context, and in that case, it's clear they didn't intend for one character in the middle of the word to be lowercase. I could wonder whether that's a bad glyph for the text, or one used by preference to the ẞ style glyph, but in Latin-script German, in a modern Unicode context, it makes no sense to maintain a distinction between an uppercased lowercase ß and an uppercase ẞ. Uppercase("ß") should go to "SS" or "ẞ", and a glyph looking like ß in an uppercase context should be interpreted and written as U+1E9E, not U+00DF. -- The standard is written in English . If you have trouble understanding a particular section, read it again and again and again . . . Sit up straight. Eat your vegetables. Do not mumble. -- _Pascal_, ISO 7185 (1991)