RE: Uppercase variant of U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S ( "German sharp s", "ß" )

From: Oliver Christ (oli@trados.com)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2005 - 18:45:55 CST

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    > Apparently, German really *does*
    > need to be able to use ß as a capital letter (whether as a
    > separate letter or caseless).

    Shouldn't the standardization institutions of the German-speaking countries first take care of that problem and then see that it's introduced into Unicode? If there's a problem, than those standardization bodies (like DIN) should be the ones who drive it.

    Otherwise it's like saying "hey guys, here you have an upper-case ß, not sure whether you actually need it, but please now change all your computer keyboards, and, sorry, but 8859-1 doesn't work any more for your language!" ;-)

    Cheers, Oli

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