From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 01:11:09 CDT
At 20:02 -0700 2008-06-30, Mark Davis wrote:
>It is *not* a matter of stability; it is a
>matter of correctness. The correct outcome is
>"SS".
>
>Mark
That's a matter of opinion, of course.
Since German orthographic reform has made <Maße>
['ma:s@] 'measures' distinct in spelling from
<Masse> ['mas@] 'mass' it is easily arguable that
abolishing this distinction in all caps as
<MASSE> for both is an error, and that <MAßE>
(with capital ß) is in fact "correct". That's a
linguistic distinction, properly maintained in
orthography with the new character.
Werner Lemberg has already pointed to
Strauß/Strauss as a personal-name distinction --
certainly a matter of import for the
identification of people...
So I believe it is only a matter of time before
"correctness" is made normative. (Could be a long
time. Could be shorter.)
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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