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From: "Otto Stolz" <stolz@iris.rz.uni-konstanz.de>
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 03:30:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: LC_CTYPE locale category and character sets.

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Am 1998-07-17 um 21:15 h hat Jonathan Coxhead geschrieben:
> I'm pretty sure I have also seen, on this very list, citations for t=
he
> uppercase sharp s character. Is it not in anyone's sights for inclusion=
?
>
> /|
> (_|/
> /|
> (_/
>-- End of excerpt from Jonathan Coxhead

Am 1998-07-18 um 8:30 h hat Michael Everson geschrieben:
> I myself have actually seen a capital sharp s in print. A nice response=
 to
> automatic capitalization which leaves a small sharp S in the middle of =
a
> capitalized word (MA=DFSTAB). It had a flat top and a kind of serif. It=
 was
> neat.
>-- End of excerpt from Michael Everson

While <http://www.ids-mannheim.de/grammis/reform/a2-3.html#25E3>, the
official rule, clearly states that
> when writing in capitals, "SS" is written [for lower-case "=DF"], e. g.=
,
> Stra=DFe -- STRASSE),
there are plans to weaken this rule.

In <http://www.ids-mannheim.de/reform/reformderreform.html>, Dr. Klaus He=
ller,
a member of the international committee, reports about their "Proposals f=
or
clarification and further development of the German spelling reform", thu=
s:
> 2. As, in capitalizing, the possible replacement of "=DF" with "SS" doe=
s
> not appropriatly render the documentarily established spelling of
> proper nasmes ("Grosse" vs. "Gro=DFe"), the possibility will be em-
> phasized that "=DF" may be written in this case ("GRO=DFE"). This ag=
rees
> with the previous usage (cf. Duden 1991, R 187).
Currently, these proposed modifications of the official rules are not (ye=
t)
effective.

For capitalized proper names (likewise for typesetting proper names in sm=
all
caps), an uppercase variant of the sharp-S would indeed be preferable to =
the
current use of (lowercase) sharp-S. For all other capitalized words (and,=

indeed, for proper names) I'd prefer to stick with double-S -- but, of co=
urse,
this is more a matter of habits than of taste.

Best wishes,
   Otto Stolz

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