German sharp S uppercase mapping
Dominikus Dittes Scherkl
lyratelle at gmx.de
Mon Dec 2 07:24:05 CST 2024
Am 02.12.24 um 12:18 schrieb Ivan Panchenko via Unicode:
> it may not be Unicode’s responsibility to promote it.
It has nothing to do with promotion.
I think from the start it was the intention to make the uppercase of ß
unambiguous by adding a new glyph. But germany insisted (until 2017) to
use the old uppercase (and nobody else cared).
Now germany has given up the resistance, so naturally the default should
be changed as intended. Especially as this would fix some problems (like
the case-insensitive file-copy and the legal names in all-uppercase
documents).
> So not exactly prominently featured (“in some fonts”). And again, I
> find it highly unlikely that the Rat ever intended to make a
> recommendation here
No, they just given up the resistance to something that was intended to
fix a bug.
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