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On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: >bear <bear@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> ...but I'm >> sorely tempted to simply declare all use of eszett, given its >> unique status in the history of human writing, to be an error. > >What happened to the days when computer programmers saw difficult >problems as interesting challenges, instead of as things to define >away? As I said, a temptation; not one I'm going to succumb to. There is a solution in place for it. I just dislike the "solution." Eszett is offensive because it absolutely *forces* its craziness back up to the user-attention level, and makes the "correct" behavior precisely the problematic behavior (strings change length on case ops) I had managed to completely eliminate for the rest of Unicode. Bear