Re: Schutz-Staffel symbol

From: Scott Horne (shorne@metaphasetech.com)
Date: Mon Oct 04 1999 - 15:09:45 EDT


Michael Everson wrote:
>
> Ar 08:50 -0700 1999-10-04, scríobh Herman Ranes:
> >special 'SS' (Schutz-Staffel, the German special services) symbol
>
> >Would that symbol be a candidate for inclusion as a character in the
> >Unicode / ISO 10646 standards, or is it simply to be considered a
> >glyph/script variant of 'SS'?
>
> One would need to see the plain text requirement before considering this
> further. Was it really "frequently encountered in book and newspaper
> articles"?

I've seen typewriters that have this vile symbol on Shift-5 (or
was it Shift-6?).

Scott Horne



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