Post B93RE0HhAZNAdg7P0K by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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 (DIR) Post #B92g2B4mWak8mvwAbY by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @kevin what's the special case with German?
       
 (DIR) Post #B93Fz2vHyhEIz0IrOC by kevin@fedi.kbg.sh
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       @wolf480pl in German, words which contain ß are capitalized as SS. ß itself was originally a ligature of two forms of lowercase s, but not every sequence of “ss” is spelled with ß, so not every sequence of SS downcases *back* to ß. Now, technically there is a capital ẞ, but this is very new and isn’t widely used.
       
 (DIR) Post #B93RE0HhAZNAdg7P0K by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @kevingross
       
 (DIR) Post #B93RscDVYaAtrrWc40 by kevin@fedi.kbg.sh
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       @wolf480pl it is what it is. Human culture wasn't made to conform to what's easy to computers, nor should it be
       
 (DIR) Post #B93SCfN3XXNhRQYI1A by wolf480pl@mstdn.io
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       @kevinto an extent, human culture evolves in response to the medium and its limitations :Pbut yeah, if Unicode's goal is to be able to express any pre-existing human writing then they need to handle edge cases like this