Re: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)

From: Karl Pentzlin (karl-pentzlin@acssoft.de)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 15:54:48 CST

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    Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2007 um 22:41 schrieb John Hudson:

    JH> But it [the uppercase ß] is an uppercase letter that, per force,
    JH> has no casing relationship to the lowercase
    JH> letter

    Of course it has a casing relationship. It is one of two uppercase
    forms of "ß", the other being "SS".
    One of these ("SS", with good reasons) is the value of Unicode toupper("ß").
    Nevertheless, users or applications may select the other form whenever
    considered appropriate.
    And, of course, the lowercase of uppercase-ß is ß. Therefore, it is
    proposed that the value of tolower(uppercase-ß) will be ß.
    There is no requirement that toupper is the inverse function of tolower. 

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Am Freitag, 4. Mai 2007 um 22:36 schrieb John Hudson:
JH> But the reader would read e as an error in place of é.
If he knows the orthography of the source language, and if
the error does not occur within a proper name unknown to the user.
JH> He would not read SS as an error in place of the uppercase eszett,
JH> because orthographically the SS is correct
when he adheres to the implicit premise that there is no orthography
than the current "official" German one. This is a false premise, as
(as the proposal gives evidence) there are a lot of people (past and
present) who use a variant of the German orthography in which the use
of an uppercase-ß is correct.
- Karl Pentzlin

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