German sharp S uppercase mapping
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Sat Nov 30 18:44:52 CST 2024
Doug Ewell via Unicode wrote in
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ook.com>:
|Thanks to Asmus for saying what I had planned to say, except that his \
|was better-worded, more carefully put together, and more authoritative.
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|Casing for text meant for human readers should follow current local \
|conventions.
|
|Casing for text meant for machine processing (file systems, databases, \
|etc.) must remain stable, even when local conventions change.
Sorry that makes totally no sense to me.
I would, however, not bring in uppercase sharp S for quite some
time. But at some time, or when really the SS would be banned "in
all Germans" which are used as official languages, sooner that is,
then the current Unicode data would be just wrong.
I do not agree with what was said on my superficial level anyhow,
even though i have seen bite marks of families, on house corners
and cars, everywhere!, mind you, who were eagerly waiting for
being able to write their ß as ß instead of-f- SS.
Yes, and Straße/STRASSE is such a thing if there is Gasse/GASSE
but which just has the same "S-sound", and always had since the
earth existsed (1972). Was it Gaße, ever? Maybe Gasze, i am not
a Germanist. But just like little Gaza the little Gasse noone
cares about.
Just my one cent. Have a nice Sunday, if at all possible!
--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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