Ar 08:44 -0700 1998-07-17, scríobh Berthold Frommann:
>
>> >And U+00DF for German has the uppercase "SS",
>> >but "SS" does not generally lowercase to U+00DF (unless you do
>> >context analysis on the data).
>>
>> Which is especially unreliable now that the German High Court has approved
>> the spelling reform.
>
>I beg to differ - the very fact that "sharp s" has the uppercase "SS" won't
>change at all.
No, but context analysis has to be based on something. You can't use
existing spellcheck dictionaries etc. because the rules have all changed.
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