Patrick Gundlach wrote:
\uppercase{ß} should be SS (or SZ, but the former is preferred). No doubt about that. But I am not that much of a TeXnican to say that this glyph is necessary in the fontencoding.
It is interesting that \lowercase{SS} is not (always) ß. Anyway, I think the \SS is a bit of sillyness introduced because EC had too much german influences ;-)
BTW: I think that 'space' is used in metapost, when not typesetting with btex...etex. So we might want to leave it there or the user should use a different encoding. (Relevant? I don't know.)
It is, but metapost will never default to this font without extra macro programming. (personally I prefer to, and encourage, the use of AdobeStandardEncoding in metapost labels that do not get passed through TeX). Taco