On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Alan J. Flavell wrote:
However, "sharp s" and "y with diaeresis" are.
What you going to do with them then, in an iso-8859-1 context? ;-)
When converting from lower-case to upper-case, "ß" becomes "SS".
"ÿ" might become "Y" without accents in ISO-8859-1.
But this leads me to a more interesting ... err ... case:
In Greek, there are no accents when a word is written in capitals.
For example (I use romanization here):
"Ellás" has an accent on "alpha", whereas
"ELLAS" has no accent on "Alpha".
Therefore "Alpha" might be considered as an upper-case form
of "alpha with tonos".
Even the proper name "Álan" converts to "ALAN" in caps.
Therefore "Alpha" might be considered as an upper-case form
of "Alpha with tonos". Strange? Yes.
I cannot find anything about this in
http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/CaseFolding.txt
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