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28.0.50; German "Sharp S" is capitalized inconsistenly

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Message #17 received at 42064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: "Philip K." <philip <at> warpmail.net>, 42064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#42064: 28.0.50; German "Sharp S" is capitalized inconsistenly
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2020 01:39:46 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: "Philip K." <philip <at> warpmail.net>
>> Cc: 42064 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:08:55 +0200
>>
>> > In 2016, the Council for German Orthography proposed the introduction
>> > of optional use of ẞ in its ruleset (i.e. variants STRASSE vs. STRAẞE
>> > would be accepted as equally valid).[19] The rule was officially
>> > adopted in 2017.[20]
>>
>> [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F#Capital_form
>
> I know, but German input methods are not only for Germany, and AFAIR
> other German-speaking countries didn't follow suit.

So it sounds like this is something we can't do much about, at the very
least not without help from a German language expert (presumably one
familiar with German as written in Germany, Switzerland and Austria).

Does that mean that this is a wontfix?

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