Re: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)

From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 05:07:39 CST

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    Michael Everson wrote:

    > Dieter Weiss and Peter Weiß may each consider
    > that there is only one way to correctly spell
    > their respective names. Despite normative German
    > orthography, Peter may not prefer to be
    > uppercased as PETER WEISS; he may in fact
    > consider it an error. We cannot do anything about
    > normative German orthography, because it is not
    > in our remit. But we should not deny Peter the
    > character he needs to write his name.

    That's an excellent argument for PETER WEISZ - not
    for a new character. I think you won't find any
    Anna Weisz - her name would be Anna Weiß. The SZ
    should be unambiguous wrt German names.

    Frank



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