From Die Zeit, I learn that new orthographic rules issued by the
Rat für deutsche Rechtschreibung specify that ß / esszett / sharp s
shall now have an uppercase form.

>From the comments there, I learn further that codepoint
U+1E9E has already been assigned to this character.

Will the default collation used for upper-case be changed
to map U+00DF to U+1E9E?

I notice that lower-case already maps U+1E9E to U+00DF,
in the version 7.9 on my disk.  (Am I already that far out of
date? Sigh.)

best regards,

Michael Sperberg-McQueen

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