On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:52:28PM +0200, Philipp Stephani wrote:
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> Am 23.06.2011 um 13:54 schrieb Heiko Oberdiek:
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> > And it's context dependent. The German language has two
> > words "Maße" and "Masse" meaning different things.
> > The uppercase variant would be the same ("MASSE"). Therefore
> > also "SZ" can be used for the uppercase form of "ß": "MASZE".
>
> This (and also the reverse operation) cannot be covered by Unicode or any
> other automated system that doesn't understand human language. (And I
> think the current orthography forbids SZ as uppercase version of ß.)
\S 25, E3 says that "SS" is used as uppercase version of "ß".
Yours sincerely
Heiko Oberdiek
