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bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek |
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Thu, 10 Dec 2020 16:17:41 +0200 |
> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 10:36:12 +0100
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net>,
> 11309@debbugs.gnu.org
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> Upcasing ß to ß never really makes sense. Words containing ß are written with
> SS in upper case: groß -> GROSS - which is one reason why the
> character-to-character use of Fupcase normally cannot be used for text
> containing the letter. The capital ß, ?ẞ, is still not widely employed but
> one of its purposes is when it is important to preserve the exact spelling of
> proper names when written in all caps: Gauß -> GAUẞ, not GAUSS. (I wouldn't
> be surprised if this will eventually become the general convention for all
> text, but we are getting ahead of society here.)
Wouldn't it be confusing that upcase treats ?ß and "ß" differently?
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/12/07
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/12/08
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/08
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/12/08
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/08
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/12/09
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/12/09
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/12/10
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/12/10
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/10
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Mattias Engdegård, 2020/12/11
- bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/12/11
bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Andreas Schwab, 2020/12/08
bug#11309: 24.1.50; Case problems with [:upper:] and Cyrillic, Greek, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2020/12/08