hex dump w/ or w/out utf-8 chars
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Tue Jul 9 12:32:40 EDT 2013
On Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:15:29 +0200, Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 11:34 AM, <wxjmfauth at 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
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