On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:15:29 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, <wxjmfa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Note the difference between SS and ẞ 'FRANZ-JOSEF-STRAUSS-STRAẞE' > > This is a capital Eszett. Which just happens not to exist in German. > Germans do not use this character, it is not available on German > keyboards, and the German spelling rules have you replace ß with SS. > And, surprise surprise, STRASSE is the example the Council for German > Orthography used ([0] page 29, §25 E3). > > [0]: http://www.neue-rechtschreibung.de/regelwerk.pdf
Only half-right. Uppercase Eszett has been used in Germany going back at least to 1879, and appears to be gaining popularity. In 2010 the use of uppercase ß apparently became mandatory for geographical place names when written in uppercase in official documentation. http://opentype.info/blog/2011/01/24/capital-sharp-s/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ẞ Font support is still quite poor, but at least half a dozen Windows 7 fonts provide it, and at least one Mac font. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
