German sharp S uppercase mapping

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Sat Nov 30 21:38:38 CST 2024


Markus Scherer wrote in
 <CAN49p6qy6Wm0xqCRHx+e2RNcqqqdp8Pi3mMaCMLA0ts7jOXbWQ at mail.gmail.com>:
 |I have followed this thread with some interest, having grown up in Germany.
 ...
 |The https://www.giessener-zeitung.de/ has a prominent all caps title with
 |ẞ. I think they have been an early adopter. However, their front page
 |weather forecast is titled GIESSEN, so this could be chalked up as title
 |calligraphy.
 |
 |The https://www.giessener-allgemeine.de/ does not seem to use any all caps.
 |The https://www.giessener-anzeiger.de/ has a topic for LANDGERICHT GIESSEN.
 |
 |The city website gießen.de <http://xn--gieen-nqa.de/> also still redirects
 |to giessen.de and does not use any all caps.

Ah!  Middle-Hesse, and if i recall correctly the song text of the
Rodgau Monotones was "Gießen und Wies[..]baden bloß, so
gnadenlos".  (Aka "pouring and how-to-bath-it merely, so
ruthless", ähem .. directly translated, that is.  Also, "Erbarme.
Zu spät. Die Hesse komme", "Have mercy. Too late. The Hesse are
coming.".  (But that was after >30 year so-called left wing
Hesse government, now we come near 30 years right wing, i presume
it takes a loooong time until that worn down thing comes again.
(I may say that as i am from Hesse myself, yet south, which was
a different Hesse until we had to unite said the americans, yet
our dynasty died out, unless we adopt King Charles of course,
which we could, but the last member dedicated south to the north
hesse dynasty, so in fact we are, now, more slim than before.
But that of course off-topic.)))
I think Gießen is somewhere near Marburg and Fulda, or something.
North of Frankfurt for sure.  North of where Elvis was even iirc!
A whole universe apart.
Talking about universe, i wonder when the future time has come
when computers will be capable to say ä not ae, for example.  In
Germany that is.  I am sure in France or what they can, already.
A more pressing need, in my opinion.  Than the thread subject.

A nice Sunday i wish.

--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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