Heyo José, that's what I figured - just thought we might have missed a unicode update or so but probably not. Thanks for the quick response as always and I'll see what happens.
I checked and yeah the official unicode still goes to S apparently: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00DF - should have checked before, sorry! Have a great week! On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM José Valim <jose.va...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Tobias, > > We strictly follow the Unicode rules here. So if new Unicode versions > include this update, then it will automatically work in the future. If > Unicode does not update, I don't believe there is anything we can do, > because then we would no longer be Unicode compliant and diverge from all > other tools and languages out there. > > There is typically a new Unicode version every year, around September, so > maybe it will be addressed once it is out and we update Elixir files! > > *José Valimhttps://dashbit.co/ <https://dashbit.co/>* > > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 10:46 AM Tobias Pfeiffer <prag...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all and thanks for all your work. >> >> This isn't super important, but after wondering how ß, a German character >> that notoriously has no capital version, was treated I found a bit of a >> rabbit hole and found out that apparently since 2024 it _has_ a capital >> version "ẞ" which is now preferred. [1] >> >> I wanted to suggest adding this to elixir. I'm not super familiar with >> the unicode support in elixir but I'd hope that that an update to >> `UnicodeData.txt` plus some updated tests [2] might do the job. I'm happy >> to do the work myself if not _too_ complex and would appreciate pointers. >> >> The current behavior (1.18.3 @ OTP 27.3.2) is: >> >> iex(1)> String.capitalize("ß") "Ss" >> iex(2)> String.upcase("ß") "SS" >> >> I don't know in general how other programming languages treat this now, >> the latest Ruby release has the same behavior as elixir. >> >> Thanks so much, nothing urgent - just a fun exploration that came out of >> a conversation I had at Alchemyconf in Braga last week :) >> >> Cheers, >> Tobi >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F#Development_of_a_capital_form >> (yes I know wikipedia is my only source so far, I can check the German >> sources as well if wished) >> [2] >> https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/lib/elixir/test/elixir/string_test.exs#L204 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "elixir-lang-core" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/68b59315-cd33-475a-bec9-8a4fa60f988fn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/68b59315-cd33-475a-bec9-8a4fa60f988fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elixir-lang-core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JmxJdtT4beOc3y3rz1LcaFOvd%3DK4nfsy1bJbKHKDwY2Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAGnRm4JmxJdtT4beOc3y3rz1LcaFOvd%3DK4nfsy1bJbKHKDwY2Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to elixir-lang-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/CAG3Z5YR2W%3D1Z6J4u8yufGE9YCESaim9aieiQmSOdB6hHNCOM8g%40mail.gmail.com.
