Re: [Unac-devel] problem encoding ß

[Loic Dachary]

mark warren bracher writes:
 > I downloaded the latest unac lib and the Text::Unaccent perl module, and 
 > it all looks great.
 > 
 > I started throwing as much Spanish/French/German as I remember at it, 
 > and I've come up with one oddity.  The German S-set (or sz ligature, 
 > those are the only two names I know it by) ß passes straight through any 
 > attempt to unaccent.  It should be encoded as
 > 
 >    ß -> ss
 > 
 > in much the same way that the ae ligature
 > 
 >    æ -> ae
 > 

        I could not say which transformation is the correct one. Is it
ß -> ß or is it ß -> ss ? Could you get an authoritative answer ? I'll
implement whatever is needed to comply to it.

        Cheers,

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