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Re: Uppercase version of ß desired

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The relevant Unicode reference is https://unicode.org/faq/casemap_charprop.html#11

Which basically says that since Unicode 5.0 (its now at Unicode 15.0) stability is guaranteed and the upper-casing to  (U+1E9E ẞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S)  is optional.

On 14 Mar 2023, at 9:12 pm, Philip Semanchuk <philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On Mar 13, 2023, at 5:38 PM, Celia McInnis <celia.mcinnis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

HI:

I would be really happy if postgresql  had an upper case version of the ß german character. The wiki page 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F

indicates that the capital (U+1E9E ẞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S) was encoded by ISO 10646 in 2008.

BTW the reason that I'd like upper('ß') to give something different than 'ß'  is because I have written a simple substitution puzzle for a large number of languages where I show the encrypted lower case words in upper case and the successful letter substitution submissions in lower case - so I need the upper and lower case versions of each letter to be different!

Thanks for any assistance! Maybe I can hack what I want in python (which is what I am using for the puzzle).

Hi Celia,
I ran into this too back when we were transitioning from Python 2 to 3 (2 behaved differently from 3). While researching it I discovered this Python issue which maybe sheds some additional light on the subject: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/74993

We ultimately found 90 characters that (under Python 3) grew longer when uppercased. 

python -c "print([c for c in range(0x80, 0x22ff) if len(chr(c)) != len(chr(c).upper())])”


I hope this is at least interesting. :-)

Cheers
Philip


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