<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Daniel,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 1, 2024 at 12:56 AM Daniel Buncic via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">But there definitely is change. Compare old book covers of “The Great <br>
Gatsby” in German like<br>
<a href="https://nikol-verlag.de/cdn/shop/products/9783868205268_351x523.jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nikol-verlag.de/cdn/shop/products/9783868205268_351x523.jpg</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://images.thalia.media/00/-/0f18217aef9f4c779a86bc28985ce4d7/der-grosse-gatsby-gebundene-ausgabe-f-scott-fitzgerald.jpeg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://images.thalia.media/00/-/0f18217aef9f4c779a86bc28985ce4d7/der-grosse-gatsby-gebundene-ausgabe-f-scott-fitzgerald.jpeg</a><br>
(which have the title as “DER GROSSE GATSBY”)<br>
with two covers from 2022 and 2023<br>
<br>
<a href="https://images.thalia.media/00/-/20013f18fd854595b609ea31f7dba854/der-grosse-gatsby-gebundene-ausgabe-f-scott-fitzgerald.jpeg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://images.thalia.media/00/-/20013f18fd854595b609ea31f7dba854/der-grosse-gatsby-gebundene-ausgabe-f-scott-fitzgerald.jpeg</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This one looks very much like a lowercase ß.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://einfachebuecher.de/thumbnail/1f/08/26/1680510657/Der%20gro%C3%9Fe%20Gatsby%20-%20cover%20Lowres_1920x1920.jpg" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://einfachebuecher.de/thumbnail/1f/08/26/1680510657/Der%20gro%C3%9Fe%20Gatsby%20-%20cover%20Lowres_1920x1920.jpg</a><br>
(where the title is spelled “DER GROẞE GATSBY”).<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This one, yes.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">A few years ago, the number of capital ẞ you could see was exactly zero. <br>
Now they are popping up more and more. For the above reasons, they <br>
are not the majority yet, but they are increasing fast. Language change <br>
is happening in front of our eyes.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Before we switch the default behavior of uppercasing libraries, it would be useful to get more examples of the transition.</div><div>Maybe queries for certain things that show the proportion of SS, ß, ẞ.</div><div>Or prominent publications that use all caps with ẞ.</div><div><br></div><div>Danke / schönen Gruß,</div><div>markus</div></div></div>