https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143128

Eike Rathke <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 OS|Windows (All)               |All
            Summary|Searching for german        |Searching for German sharp
                   |special characters (ä, ö,   |s / eszett (ß,ẞ) provides
                   |ü, ß) provides wrong        |wrong results
                   |results                     |
           Hardware|x86-64 (AMD64)              |All
            Version|7.1.4.2 release             |Inherited From OOo

--- Comment #7 from Eike Rathke <[email protected]> ---
ß/ss has *nothing* to do with diacritics / diacritical marks, only with
case-(in)sensitivity and replacements. While the uppercase ẞ exists in German
orthography (btw it does not in de-CH Switzerland) the ⟨SS⟩ uppercase
replacement and even the ⟨ss⟩ lowercase is still commonly used, especially if
the letter ⟨ß⟩ is not available and the uppercase ⟨ẞ⟩ is even less used.
Additionally in Swiss Standard German it is "⟨ss⟩ usually replaces every ⟨ß⟩".
Also, many software applications convert a lowercase ⟨ß⟩ to uppercase ⟨SS⟩.

Finding those variants when searching case-insensitive seems logical to me.

However, not finding uppercase ẞ when searching for lowercase ß
case-insensitive, and vice versa, is a bug.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.

Reply via email to