To put a SS-ligature at the position which is indented by the Unicode Consortium to be filled with the letter Capital Sharp S ist wrong. You could write an opentype rule to substitute ß with SS in capitalised words but you shoudn’t missuse the place of a different symbole.
The capital Eszett (sharp s) isn’t really an often used letter. The majority of Germans don’t even know it exists since two years. But the general (and still valid) rule to replace it by SS causes some problems. If you capitalize words like “Maße” (metrics) and “Masse” (mass) they become identical (MASSE). With names it’s even more problematical: In my ID-Card my family name is spelled “GROßMANN” to make sure, it is not written “Grossmann”. But that’s orthographically as wrong as writing “BRUnO” or “PAuL” ‒ and it doesn’t please aesthetically, too. The capital Eszett provides an optimal solution. So: Design a real capital Eszett or leave it completely ‒ but don’t fill the gap with the old problematical SS-substitution. By the way: The substitution SZ is ‒ as far as I know ‒ only used by officials because this combination is (almost?) non-existent within natural German words. So it’s less likely to be missinterpreted but also much more strange if used in daily life. -- Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
