Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ...
by schoen on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @05:43AM
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Probably "don't fuss about Fußball" for the same reasons, right?
Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ...
by thiht on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @10:53AM
(#41778000)
I thought the German language deprecated the use of ß years ago, no? I learned German for a year and that's what the teacher told us, but maybe it's not the whole story
Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ...
by 47282847 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @12:37PM
(#41779174)
Incorrect. ẞ is still a thing.
Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ...
by CamperBob2 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:49PM
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Going by what you and the grandparent wrote, it's not just a thing, but two different things: ẞ ß
It is probably time for an Esperanto advocate to show up and set us all straight.
Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ...
by D-Coder on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @05:11PM
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Pri kio vi parolas? En Esperanto, unu letero egalas unu sonon.
What are you talking about? In Esperanto, one letter equals one sound.
Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ...
by selenography on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @05:50PM
(#41782143)
> set us all straight.
Se fareblus oni, jam farintus oni. (It definitely won't happen on an echo-change day like today, either. ;))
Contra my comrade's comment, Esperanto orthography is firmly European, and so retains European-style casing distinctions; every sound thus still has two letters -- or at least two codepoints.
(There aren't any eszettesque bigraphs, but that's not saying much.)
The lowercase of "DON'T FUSS ABOUT FUSSBALL" is "don't fuss about fußball". Unless you're in Switzerland.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code-switching