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| Registered: May 9, 2007 |  Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | I don't think the program has a problem with ß, except maybe with regard to sorting. And that can be solved locally (as for the Umlauts) in the Sort Title. | | | | Hans |
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 | Muckl | | That's my common name. |
| Registered: April 9, 2009 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 858 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Prof. Kingsfield: Quote:
The FACT is that the program cannot recognize ß, so we have jerry rig it. Iwould be very happy to enter it as ß, but I can't and nobody else can either. That is plain wrong. Where did you get that? You haven't tried it yourself, that's for sure... Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
I don't think the program has a problem with ß, except maybe with regard to sorting. And that can be solved locally (as for the Umlauts) in the Sort Title. It sorts perfectly fine: r - s - ss - ß - t - ... | | |
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| Muckl | | That's my common name. |
| Registered: April 9, 2009 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 858 |
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| Registered: May 9, 2007 | | Posts: 1,536 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Muckl: Quote:
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I don't think the program has a problem with ß, except maybe with regard to sorting. And that can be solved locally (as for the Umlauts) in the Sort Title.
It sorts perfectly fine: r - s - ss - ß - t - ... I hadn't tried that. For sorting of the Umlaute, I use 'ae', 'oe' and 'ue' in the Sort Title. Doesn't that make sense either? I wouldn't want them all at the end of the list, which definitely happens with some of the Czech characters symbols. | | | | Hans |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote:
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I don't think the program has a problem with ß, except maybe with regard to sorting. And that can be solved locally (as for the Umlauts) in the Sort Title.
It sorts perfectly fine: r - s - ss - ß - t - ...
I hadn't tried that. For sorting of the Umlaute, I use 'ae', 'oe' and 'ue' in the Sort Title. Doesn't that make sense either? I wouldn't want them all at the end of the list, which definitely happens with some of the Czech characters symbols. Correct sorting would depend on the locality in which you are living. There are different sorting rules for almost every country. | | | | Last edited: by RHo |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 3,188 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting RHo: Quote:
Correct sorting would depend on the locality in which you are living. There are different sorting rules for almost every country. The problem with that is if you have many foreign titles in your list, they can't all be sorted correctly according to their own languages. Not without using the private sort field. Since the Windows locality setting can only deal with one language at a time, it will assume that all your titles are in the same language and sort them according to the same rules. Which might not make sense for all titles. | | | | First registered: February 15, 2002 |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,216 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
When I was learning German many years back, I was told that it was being phased out. On the contrary, since March 2008 Unicode has a capital Version of the sharp s ( Link) so in 10 to 20 years the problem is solved ...  And as long as the 'u' in Fuß (Foot) and Kuss (kiss) is spoken different that should be reflected by the spelling. The poor Swiss no longer can distinguish between the "Masse" (mass) and the "Maße" (measurements) of a woman!  cya, Mithi PS And of course the "Das weiße Band" is the only possible title and original title. | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 |  Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | <-- Curious:
What do you call the ß character in German? |
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| Registered: June 22, 2007 | | Posts: 89 |
| | Posted: | | | | "Scharfes S" (= sharp S) or "SZ" (spoken: EssZett). |
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting schaumi: Quote:
"Scharfes S" (= sharp S) or "SZ" (spoken: EssZett). Thanks, schaumi. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Mithi: Quote:
The poor Swiss no longer can distinguish between the "Masse" (mass) and the "Maße" (measurements) of a woman! That no longer is since 1906. And don't forget Liechtenstein. I haven't heard any complains from Swiss people about that confusion yet. But the reason may be that in Swiss German there are different words for those (Maas = Masse = measurement; Masse = Masse = mass)  | | | | Last edited: by RHo |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,759 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting schaumi: Quote:
"Scharfes S" (= sharp S) or "SZ" (spoken: EssZett). I would call it funny looking beta. But then I live in one of those countries which do officially not write that character in their official German language. |
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| Hom3r | | 1011+ DVDs and counting |
| Registered: March 28, 2007 |  Posts: 41 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting CalebAndCo: Quote:
<-- Curious:
What do you call the ß character in German? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F | | | | www.daves-world.co.uk |
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| Registered: October 6, 2008 | | Posts: 1,932 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Hom3r: Quote:
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<-- Curious:
What do you call the ß character in German?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F Very helpful; thanks! |
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