Re: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)

From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Sun May 06 2007 - 12:02:56 CDT

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    Michael Everson wrote:

    > Calling it SHARP S therefore is better than ESZETT in the
    > context of the UCS.

    Yes, there's a rule about never ever changing the name of a
    code point, isn't it ? Otherwise "szlig" could be better,
    not all "sharp s" are represented by "szlig" in German, let
    alone elsewhere not limited to de-CH.

    "German double s" is another name for this "eszet" beast,
    http://www.eki.ee/letter/chardata.cgi?ucode=df
    http://decodeunicode.org/w3.php?nodeId=217&page=1&lang=2(É 

    Frank



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