From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Mon Jun 30 2008 - 19:02:41 CDT
At 19:43 -0400 2008-06-30, David Starner wrote:
>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.
It's only a matter of time before the link becomes a normative
requirement for German data.
-- Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
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