>> * `ß' is never used in Switzerland; it's always `ss' (and `SS').
>> [...]
>
> So the Swiss don't have that issue. What do they do for names?
Foreign names containing `ß' are treated as-is, AFAIK. It's similar
to using, say, accents in some foreign names in English.
>> For such cases, `GESCHOSS' is a much better uppercase version
>> since it covers both dialectic forms.
... and Swiss people would use the same uppercase version...
> I don't see the claimed benefit; [...]
>
> Users who will end up "resolving" this would be those who grew up
> only with the revised orthography.
Indeed.
>> I very much dislike the approach that just for the sake of
>> `simplistic standardization for uppercase' the use if `ẞ' should be
>> enforced in German. [...]
>
> Hmm, don't see anyone calling for that in this discussion.
Well, I hear an implicit ”Great, there is now an `ẞ' character! Let's
use it as the uppercase version of `ß' everywhere so that this nasty
German peculiarity is finally gone.“
Maybe it's only me...
Werner
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