Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping
Asmus Freytag via Unicode <[email protected]>
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On 12/1/2024 12:51 PM, Daniel Buncic via Unicode wrote: > Am 01.12.2024 um 19:32 schrieb Markus Scherer: >> I searched amazon.de for “der große”. Not one capital ẞ on the first two >> pages. ... > > Amazon sells all the books, movies, etc. that are in stock. They can > be very old. Even when a book is given as “published in 2022” or so, > this often only means that there was a new printing of the same > edition, or a new but stereotypical edition. This is not > representative of whatever change has been going on in the last couple > of years. ... Book titles are interesting, but subject to things like house styles. On the other hand, ad designs are among the most contemporaneous uses of text, and I had no problems spotting one with a very prominent capital sharp s (image should have been shared on the list, if not stripped). Use is definitely more prominent than it was at the time (Unicode 5.1) that we encoded U+1E9E. Just like adoption of the 1996 orthography has not been universal, we can expect there to be a transition period. However, overly conservative/cautious implementation of software support (e.g. using the wrong tables to do uppercasing in a text design app, as opposed to for identifiers) will unnecessarily prolong that transition. A./