Re: Lukashenka (jara: Country names still needed)

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From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: Lukashenka (jara: Country names still needed)


> On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 09:30:13PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> (re: ß)
>
> > Why can't a capital be the same as the lower case?
>
> Well, I can't give you any technical reason; I can only
> point to actual German usage.  There's no such thing as
> a "capital estset" in the German alphabet; whenever
> an estset is converted to uppercase, it becomes "SS".
> When converted to Unicode "Titlecase", it becomes "Ss",
> although until this thread I had not run across any words
> that actually required that treatment. :)
Indeed...there are no actual words beginning with a double-s or eszet(I
think that's the right spelling...), so the capital is non-existant...

> -Mark
>

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