Since April 4, 2008 Unicode contains the character 'LATIN CAPITAL
LETTER SHARP S' (U+1E9E) due to an initiative of the German Standards
institute (DIN). Addition 4:2008 to the standard ISO/IEC 10646
appeared on June 23, 2008, which provides sort of an "international
blessing". The ultimate authority for German spelling is the "Rat für
deutsche Rechtschreibung", which hasn't endorsed this novelty yet;
thus the rule to replace "ß" with "SS" is still valid officially.
It is absolutely wrong to replace 'ß' by a single 'S'.
Personal remark: Practical use typically precedes an official
amendment of a rule; hence it would be advisable to use U+1E9E today,
provided your font has a fitting glyph. Otherwise, you may have to
stick with the "SS" replacement. - It is downright ugly to see a
single 'ß' among all upper case lettering, therefore avoid it.
-W
On 05/01/2013, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
On 05/01/2013 10:08, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
Hi Folks,
Here is a common German surname:
Strauß
I used SAXON to convert the surname to uppercase:
upper-case('Strauß') returns STRAUSS
Notice that ß was converted to SS.
Assuming the processor is using Unicode later than 3.2 all processors
should use the same (unicode defined) tables. The Xpath upper-case
function does not depend on the locale or (directly) the processor, just
on the version of Unicode supported.
the definition of upper-case notes:
> These functions may not always be linguistically appropriate ....
see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-upper-case
David
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