From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 05:07:39 CST
Michael Everson wrote:
> Dieter Weiss and Peter Weiß may each consider
> that there is only one way to correctly spell
> their respective names. Despite normative German
> orthography, Peter may not prefer to be
> uppercased as PETER WEISS; he may in fact
> consider it an error. We cannot do anything about
> normative German orthography, because it is not
> in our remit. But we should not deny Peter the
> character he needs to write his name.
That's an excellent argument for PETER WEISZ - not
for a new character. I think you won't find any
Anna Weisz - her name would be Anna Weiß. The SZ
should be unambiguous wrt German names.
Frank
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