Re: Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur)

From: David Starner (starner@okstate.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 30 2002 - 11:16:55 EST


On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 09:42:08AM +0100, Karl Pentzlin wrote:
> The advantage is that you can encode text to be displayed correctly
> (i.e. according to the obligatory typesetting rules) in Fraktur as
> plain text. You even can display this text correctly in Fraktur or
> Roman without change (as you can encode a Serbocroatian plain text to
> be displayed in Latin or Cyrillic correctly without change).

What happens to the long s? That needs changing if you're talking about
Roman script since the 19th century.

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