From: kris@black.toppoint.de (Kristian Koehntopp) Subject: Re: 8 bit clean implies what? Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1993 10:14:59 GMT
In <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?
>Warning: that is a trick question, at least as I understand the German
>case conventions.
To resolve it: The German "sz" character, which looks roughly
like an unslanted beta to the untrained eye, is generally
considered to be a lower case character with no uppercase
equivalent by germans. If you must write a word containing an
"sz" in uppercase, you either leave the character alone (which
is false according to the "Duden") or substitue it by two
uppercase "s" (the "Duden"-recommended two-letter substitution
if no "sz" character is available).
In any case you need special handling in your code.
Kristian
PS: My last name is spelled with an o-Umlaut instead of "oe",
but you can't see this in ASCII. I would like to see
MIME-Implementations for USENET software ASAP.
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