From: Richard Wordingham (richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com)
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 09:55:22 CDT
Asmus Freytag wrote on Sunday, May 06, 2007 at 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)
> On 5/5/2007 9:37 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>> Of course, to get the special glyph one would still need appropriate
>> fonts with corresponding layout lookups, but what I considered attractive
>> about the option I proposed was that the fallback position, in the
>> absence of an appropriate font, would be 'SS' and not a 'notdef box.
> I realized that. But it would make the searchable text "SS" as well, and
> that's not really appropriate here and I suspect doing so would really
> hurt in the long term.
Doesn't default full case-folding already have that effect for "ß"?
Frank Ellermann wrote on Saturday, May 05, 2007 at 10:56 AM:
> It's not really "uppercase", there are no words beginning
> with eszett, and there are no mixed case uses of eszett.
> It's "title case".
Title case is what you use for the first letter when a truly bicameral
system would start the word in upper case and continue it in lower case.
Thus the current default full title case of 'ß' is 'Ss', as in Karl
Pentzlin's Sorbian example. Casing is locale-dependent. Unicode already
specifies Lithuanian and Turkic casing rules.
An interesting question is how a user is to customise his system to
uppercase 'ß' to the new character, or, should the character be rejected
again, an appropriate string. Will there be an appropriate locale?
Richard.
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