German sharp S uppercase mapping

[Daniel Buncic]

Am 01.12.2024 um 19:32 schrieb Markus Scherer:
> I searched amazon.de for “der große”. Not one capital ẞ on the first two
> pages. Among results on those pages for recent items: “ARTHUR DER GROSSE“,
> “AIR - DER GROSSE WURF“, “DER GROßE WADAS“, “DER GROSSE GOPNIK“, “DAS
> GROSSE BUCH DER GUTEN GEDANKEN“, “DER GROSSE SOMMER“, “DER GROSSE
> YOUTUBER-BEEF“, “DAS GROSSE BUCH DER SELBST REFLEXION“, “DER GROSSE
> SCHLEIMFILM“, “ALEXANDER DER GROSSE“, 2x “DER GROSSE GATSBY“

Amazon sells all the books, movies, etc. that are in stock.  They can be 
very old.  Even when a book is given as “published in 2022” or so, this 
often only means that there was a new printing of the same edition, or a 
new but stereotypical edition.  This is not representative of whatever 
change has been going on in the last couple of years.  Remember, the new 
wording that expresses a preference for ẞ over SS (or at least treats 
them equally) was only published this year, with the new Duden edition 
(which is what people actually read rather than the official rules) 
coming out in August, just 3½ months ago.  Of course this has not 
changed all the 2.5 million German-language books that are currently 
available.  But, as I have shown, the more recent a cover, the more 
often you see a capital ẞ.

All the best,

Daniel

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