On 12/1/2024 12:51 PM, Daniel Buncic via Unicode wrote:
Am 01.12.2024 um 19:32 schrieb Markus Scherer:
I searched amazon.de for “der große”. Not one capital ẞ on the first two
pages. ...
Amazon sells all the books, movies, etc. that are in stock. They can
be very old. Even when a book is given as “published in 2022” or so,
this often only means that there was a new printing of the same
edition, or a new but stereotypical edition. This is not
representative of whatever change has been going on in the last couple
of years. ...
Book titles are interesting, but subject to things like house styles.
On the other hand, ad designs are among the most contemporaneous uses of
text, and I had no problems spotting one with a very prominent capital
sharp s (image should have been shared on the list, if not stripped).
Use is definitely more prominent than it was at the time (Unicode 5.1)
that we encoded U+1E9E. Just like adoption of the 1996 orthography has
not been universal, we can expect there to be a transition period.
However, overly conservative/cautious implementation of software support
(e.g. using the wrong tables to do uppercasing in a text design app, as
opposed to for identifiers) will unnecessarily prolong that transition.
A./
