German sharp S uppercase mapping
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Mon Nov 25 13:27:35 CST 2024
Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in
<20241125190502.2-MxS48W at steffen%sdaoden.eu>:
|Jules Bertholet via Unicode wrote in
| <9RLINS.ZGOEYIMBLB493 at quoi.xyz>:
||Traditionally, the capital form of the German sharp S (U+00DF ß) was
||"SS". More recently, a capital sharp S (U+1E9E ẞ) was added as a
||secondary alternative, but U+00DF’s uppercase mapping was left
||unchanged.
...
|Having said all that, i have SpecialCasing.txt from 2019, 13.0.0
|says the file, and there one can read
|
| # The German es-zed is special--the normal mapping is to SS.
^
I have no Unicode younger than from 2019 (unfortunately that all
drowned, for some time to come), but this "es-zed" never had
anything to do with german as far as i know. "eszett" is shall
be. (I am also still struggling with my american family member
who said fourty years ago "bensin" for gasoline where Benzin it
should have been it, but likely, if you come from Pennsylvania,
with *that* price for that shit, a mild and forgiving tone comes
naturally maybe, as opposed to TTZZETTT (not "sieh sieh topp" aka
ZZ TOP, but PULL!-PULL!).
But all that off-topic, and whereas i am a hundred percent German,
other languages like Francaise and Italian are usually nicer to
listen to. (Having said that a master *can* make German
a beautiful and smooth language. Yet so few of those exist. But
that is not a problem of Germany alone.)
Other than that i do not even like emojis.
Now silent.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
|
|And in Fall, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s ball(s).
|
|The banded bear
|without a care,
|Banged on himself for e'er and e'er
|
|Farewell, dear collar bear
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