From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: 8 bit clean implies what? Date: 11 Feb 1993 01:49:24 +0100
In comp.os.linux, article <16849@auspex-gw.auspex.com>,
guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>
> I.e., the upper-case version of the German "sz" character has a loweer
> code than the lower-case version?
>
OUCH!
> Warning: that is a trick question, at least as I understand the German
> case conventions. It may be unwise to assume that translating a string
> from lower-case to upper-case can be done simply by replacing each
> lower-case letter in the string with a character that's the upper-case
> version of that letter.
To be more exact, the uppercase version of the "sz" character (which some
people misread for a Greek beta) is the two characters "SS", except when
there already exists a word with "SS" at that position; then it becomes
"SZ". Neat, huh? ;-)
German has some other ugly features, eg. when you're hyphenating them,
some words suddenly change spelling. Fun if you're trying to do soft
hyphens correctly.
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