James Seng wrote:
> >Whether DF should be decompose to "SS" or otherwise is defined in NFKC. >Therefore, this question should be appropriately address in Unicode >Consortium. It is not decomposed in NFKC, from what I can see. It is in the special, multi character case folding file. Though as it is already a "small letter sharp s" I cannot understand how one can lower case it once more. It is already lower case. > >> While there is not doubt about the above, I am not sure that >> the nameprep specification that 00DF (small letter sharp s) should >> be matted to "ss". I am not sure how Germans handle this character. >> Do they always replace double s with it? Or only on some special words? >> If they do not generally do this, the mapping should not be done. >> It is somewhat like the fact that the Greek version of latin A is >> not mapped to the Roman version of latin A. Even though their origin >> is the same latin A and look alike. >> While "small letter sharp s" looks like "small letter beta", there are >> no similarities between double s and "small letter sharp s". So why not >> let "small letter sharp s" remain that and be a distinctive character >> in a domain name. I assume Germans use it to write German words. Not >> to replace double s in non-German names. >> Dan
