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On 05/01/2013 12:41, David Carlisle wrote:
On 05/01/2013 10:08, Costello, Roger L. wrote:As David says, the mapping is defined by the Unicode standard, and is not processor-dependent, except that the spec allows a processor to use a future version of Unicode, which could change the mapping.Hi Folks, Wolfgang knows the cultural/linguistic details better than I do, but in most contexts when the name Strau_ is written in upper-case, the form used in STRAUSS. The upper-case _ recently added to Unicode is a rarity. Before it was added to Unicode, the submitters were required to provide evidence that the character was in actual use, and I recall seeing various photographs of tombstones and book spines from various periods in history in the justification. The _ character is historically a ligature formed from a long s and a z, and since long s is encountered only in lower-case, there's good reason to argue that the upper-case form should be "SZ" in archaic uses and "SS" in modern uses. Michael Kay Saxonica
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