Issue 68824 - Don't change German "ß" to "ss" when formatted as Small capitals
Summary: Don't change German "ß" to "ss" when formatted as Small capitals
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.3
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2006-08-21 12:52 UTC by radkeste
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Description radkeste 2006-08-21 12:52:01 UTC 
Hello,

this is a problem in the typography of the german version of OpenOffice.org
2.0.3 which coheres with the german capital "ß" in small capitals (Versalien;
Versal-Eszett). So I would say that this problem should be send to a german
developer. 

Die Kapitälchen-Formatierung, die unter Format/Zeichen/Auszeichnungen zu finden
ist, verändert das "ß" in Worten mit diesem Format. So wird aus Weiß, "WEISS"
statt "WEIß". Das kann, gerade bei Eigennamen, zu Verwechlungen führen. Daher
würde ich fragen, ob es nicht möglich ist in OpenOffice das "ß" in der
Kapitälchen-Schrift beizubehalten statt es durch "SS" zu ersetzen. Laut
wikipedia wird dies auch so angewandt (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versal-Eszett). 


Mit freundlichen Grüßen


Stephan
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-08-21 14:16:51 UTC 
MRU->FME: currently when the German "ß" is formatted as small cap it will be
changed to "ss". This is problematic especially for Names which MUST NOT be
written differently. This behaviour should be changed and adapted to other Word
Processors.
Comment 2 mkretzschmar 2006-08-21 21:22:38 UTC 
This change should not be made lightheadedly. Searching for "ß Kapitälchen"
finds links like 

http://www.mediengestalter-blog.de/2006/01/06/der-typografische-suendenpfuhl/
http://www.typolexikon.de/k/kapitaelchen.html

saying that ß MUST NEVER be mixed with all caps, not even with small caps.

Also, the Versal-Eszett Wikipedia article is about a separate capital ß glyph
(which most fonts don't have, I assume, except for the small list in the
article). It talks about keeping the small ß only in the context of names, but
not otherwise.