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Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:03:13 +0200
From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
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On 11.10.11 19:33, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Am 10.10.2011, 20:23 Uhr, schrieb Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>:
> 
>> However, there is substantial evidence that no z would ever be
>> combined with an s such that the result is both forming an
>> "ess-zed" shape,
> 
> You just have to use the right typeface:

(The crucial part that you did not quote was

 ``and also meaning s+z, in a word that stems from Latin,
  such as "process"''

If "ss" and "ß" were treated the same in computer language,
then Switzerland will serve as evidence that it is an actual
possibility working even in natural language.)  Programmers'
reaction to other equivalences such as "ae" ~ "ä" might be
less friendly.

But I imagine a language rule that addresses common sense
more than it does the mechanics of Unicode or the history
of writing; it might even be easy to implement:

 Any simple name shall include alphabetic characters from
 only one "alphabet".

Presuming some practical definition of "alphabet".