RE: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Sat May 05 2007 - 07:06:52 CST

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    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Frank Ellermann

    > Well, I think we have already collected some facts about
    > this "misbegotten character", as John put it:
    >
    > It's not really "uppercase"

    That's not a statement of fact but of analysis and interpretation.

    > there are no words beginning
    > with eszett, and there are no mixed case uses of eszett.
    > It's "title case".

    But clearly there are full-cap contexts in which eszett (or putative capital eszett) occurs.

    Peter



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