On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 02:39:12PM +0200, Wolfgang Maier wrote: [...] > Very interesting advice. Wasn't aware at all of this feature of casefold. > As a native German speaker, I have to say that your last two examples > involving the capital ß are pretty contrived: although the capital ß is > part of unicode, it is not an official part of the German alphabet and > nobody is using it (in fact, I had to look it up in Wikipedia now to > learn what that letter is).
Interestingly, although capital ß is not official, it used to be a lot more common than it is now, and never quite disappeared: http://opentype.info/blog/2011/01/24/capital-sharp-s/ Now that the common fonts provided on Windows support the capital sharp s, I wouldn't be surprised if it starts to come back into vogue. Typesetters will be at the forefront, since they care about the look of things: http://www.glyphsapp.com/tutorials/localize-your-font-german-capital-sharp-s > An even better example than the rest of yours would be Kuß (German for > the noun kiss), which only people above 30 (like me) still spell this > way, but younger people spell Kuss since the official rules have changed > over the last 10 years. > In this particular case, you should definitely be prepared to handle > "Kuss" and "Kuß" as legal input. Good example! Thank you! -- Steven _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor