From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2005 - 17:53:11 CST
On 16/02/2005 22:50, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> ...
> Changing the case mapping for U+00DF "ß" is not possible -
> particularly since the transformation U+00DF "ß" -> "SS" is in fact
> officially correct - despite the fact that Andreas and Karl can point
> to many instances where it is not used or not desired.
>
> Adding a new character, like the one that Andreas proposed, to the
> standard in the face of well established case mapping from sharp-s to
> SS would result in major inconsistencies.
>
I note that there is an established mechanism for non-standard case
mappings in Latin script, and associated with it two characters which do
not have case pairs in the normal sense. I refer to U+0130 Ä° LATIN
CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT
ABOVE and U+0131 ı LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I, and to the special case
mapping defined for Turkish and Azerbaijani. Since this is possible, it
would also presumably be possible to define a new character for capital
U+00DF ß and to go with it a new non-standard case mapping. Given the
reluctance of the UTC to accept variation sequences, this might be a
better way to resolve this problem.
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