Re: Capital sharp s

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2007 - 17:21:30 CST

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    On 12/10/2007 1:14 PM, Henrik Theiling wrote:
    > Hi!
    >
    > I'm not sure whether I spotted a bug or a feature in the 5.1.0beta.
    > It is about casing of the new 1E9E LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S.
    >
    > My understanding was that with existing text, nothing changes, i.e.,
    >
    > toupper("ß") = "SS"
    > casefold("ß") = "ss"
    >
    > and that the new capital sharp S would behave as follows:
    >
    > tolower("<CAPITAL SHARP S>")= "ß"
    > casefold("<CAPITAL SHARP S>")= "ss"
    >
    > However, there is no entry in the CaseFolding list nor in
    > SpecialCasing for 1E9E in the Unicode 5.1.0beta. The following
    > document does propose an entry in CaseFolding:
    >
    > http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3227.pdf
    >
    > Is this a bug or a feature?
    >
    > Bye,
    > Henrik
    >
    >
    >
    >



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