On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 1:15 PM David Starner via Unicode < [email protected]> wrote:
> Secondly, is there a position that ß should be used in uppercase > contexts, especially as opposed to using ẞ? If there's absolutely no > such movement, I think it clear that ß should be counted as a glyph > variant of ẞ in uppercase contexts. There is no "movement". It has long been one of the in-use spellings, for when people wanted to disambiguate and the new capital version didn't yet exist, or for whatever reasons if in new publications. Characters can be displayed in a variety of glyphs, but claiming that even if it uses a glyph in the range of character x it is "intended" to actually be character y which has a different range of glyphs, destroys its character identity. If you do that, then all bets are off. Who is to say that any of the uppercase-looking things are actually glyphs for uppercase characters? They might as well be glyph variations for their lowercase characters. markus
