[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>> It's very strange that the Germans with their special relation to
>> the standards did not care to reserve a LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S
>> for the cases like this, where
>>
>> title_case(up_case("Großjohann")) != "Großjohann"
>
> `Special relation to standards', he he. Right you are.
>
> It appears that amongst Germans, ä, ö, ü and ß occupy a middle ground
> between a ligature and a letter in their own right. For example,
> sorting is not done as if they were an extra letter, but differently.
> At least, in one of the two sorting (collating?) rules in widespread
> use.
>
> I think in Sweden, ä and ö are letters in their own right, aren't
> they?
Right. As well as å. Not ü though. (And we don't have ß at all.)
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