German sharp S uppercase mapping
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Mon Nov 25 13:50:44 CST 2024
Jukka K. Korpela via Unicode wrote in
<CAGHxYa7QmmU=CcxudEzBmCk1xei7xESzQAn1dJ-JHbp_-UtWjA at mail.gmail.com>:
| Steffen Nurpmeso via Unicode (unicode at corp.unicode.org) wrote:
|
|> 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.
|
|The current version of the file has the same text.
|
|I think it would be adequate and sufficient to replace the words ”normal
|mapping” to “default mapping in Unicode”. This would clarify that such a
|mapping is what Unicode specifies as the default. Whether it is the “normal
|mapping” depends on how “normal” is defined.
Sigh, maybe i was mistaken with Switzerland, says wikipedia. I am
too lazy to get up and look into the Duden.
Wikipedia says anyway:
Die ersten Vorschläge, für das Eszett im Antiquasatz eine
Majuskelform einzuführen, erschienen 1879 in der Fachzeitschrift
Journal für Buchdruckerkunst.
First proposals for uppercase 1879 in a prof.-mag.
Im Duden von 1925 wurde der Bedarf an einer Normierung eines großen Eszett formuliert:
„Die Verwendung zweier Buchstaben für einen Laut ist nur ein
Notbehelf, der aufhören muss, sobald ein geeigneter
Druckbuchstabe für das große ß geschaffen ist.“
In 1925 they said it is only an expedient to use two letters, that
has to stop as soon as possible.
And what is normal. I think in Psychology they already changed
by the beginning of the 90s to say something like "normal is when
the person can live with it", or something similar.
That is better than modern times, where i personally surely cannot
live with that bullshit mountain of lies and other crap. (Sorry.)
I have never used uppercase SZ myself, all my life.
Ciao,
--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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