Re: Capital Sharp S in the News

From: David Starner (prosfilaes@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2008 - 18:43:25 CDT

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    On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Leo Broukhis <leob@mailcom.com> wrote:
    > Isn't the letter in question the same as the rejected (in 2004)
    >
    > LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DOUBLE S
    > (existence as character not demonstrated; would cause casing problems
    > for legacy German data)?

    Yes. I wish I could offer you a link to the proposal, but there was a
    new one made, and it offered more than enough evidence to sustain it
    as a letter. Apparently Unicode decided that the concerns of casing
    problems were sufficiently dealt by not having the current double s
    uppercase to it.



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