[issue34928] string method .upper() converts 'ß' to 'SS' instead of 'ẞ'

2018-10-08 Thread Marc Richter
Marc Richter added the comment: Sorry then; that did not show up in my search :/ Yes, seems like this is duplicating that one. -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue34

[issue34928] string method .upper() converts 'ß' to 'SS' instead of 'ẞ'

2018-10-08 Thread Marc Richter
New submission from Marc Richter : There's a special letter in German orthography called "eszett" (ß). This letter had no uppercase variant for hundreds of years until 2017, there was an uppercase variant added to the official German orthography called "capital eszett"

[issue13828] Further improve casefold documentation

2018-10-08 Thread Marc Richter
Marc Richter added the comment: +1 as well. To be honest, I did not understand what this function does in detail yet. Since not too long ago (2017) in Germany, there was an uppercase-variant for the special letter from this function's example (ß) been added to the official orthography [1