>> * `ß' is never used in Switzerland; it's always `ss' (and `SS'). >> [...] > > So the Swiss don't have that issue. What do they do for names?
Foreign names containing `ß' are treated as-is, AFAIK. It's similar to using, say, accents in some foreign names in English. >> For such cases, `GESCHOSS' is a much better uppercase version >> since it covers both dialectic forms. ... and Swiss people would use the same uppercase version... > I don't see the claimed benefit; [...] > > Users who will end up "resolving" this would be those who grew up > only with the revised orthography. Indeed. >> I very much dislike the approach that just for the sake of >> `simplistic standardization for uppercase' the use if `ẞ' should be >> enforced in German. [...] > > Hmm, don't see anyone calling for that in this discussion. Well, I hear an implicit ”Great, there is now an `ẞ' character! Let's use it as the uppercase version of `ß' everywhere so that this nasty German peculiarity is finally gone.“ Maybe it's only me... Werner