German sharp S uppercase mapping

[Erik Carvalhal Miller]

An instance of two‐tlecase.

On Sunday, December 15, 2024, Daniel Buncic via Unicode <
unicode at corp.unicode.org> wrote:

> The long ſ, which is only used in old Fraktur script, but not in
>>> modern Antiqua script, has the same issue.
>>>
>>
> Except that in Fraktur there are no all-caps words, so that the function
> to_upper() has no use in a Fraktur text anyway.
>
> (For example, a modern Bible printed in Antiqua might have words like GOTT
> ‘GOD’, JESUS, der HERR ‘the LORD’, etc. printed in all-caps to mark them as
> sacred.  In old Bibles printed in Fraktur, something like 𝔊𝔒𝔗𝔗,
> 𝔍𝔈𝔖𝔘𝔖 or 𝔡𝔢𝔯 ℌ𝔈ℜℜ is quite unthinkable because all-caps Fraktur
> words are basically illegible.  What you can find in old Bibles is the use
> of two capitals at the beginning to emphasize words, e.g. 𝔊𝔒𝔱𝔱,
> 𝔍𝔈ſ𝔲𝔰, 𝔡𝔢𝔯 ℌ𝔈𝔯𝔯.)
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Daniel
>
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