On 10 Jul 2001, Sergei Pokrovsky wrote:
> It's very strange that the Germans with their special relation to
> the standards did not care to reserve a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S
> for the cases like this, where
>
> title_case(up_case("Großjohann")) != "Großjohann"
`Special relation to standards', he he. Right you are.
It appears that amongst Germans, ä, ö, ü and ß occupy a middle ground
between a ligature and a letter in their own right. For example,
sorting is not done as if they were an extra letter, but differently.
At least, in one of the two sorting (collating?) rules in widespread
use.
I think in Sweden, ä and ö are letters in their own right, aren't
they?
kai
PS: Should I have said `character' rather than `letter'?
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