RE: Is long s a presentation form?

From: Dominikus Scherkl (Dominikus.Scherkl@glueckkanja.com)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 12:35:02 EST

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> Why is the long form of the small latin letter s considered a
> character in its own right?
Many of the very low codepoints are defned for compatibility reasons
(e.g. all the accented characters, which can all be represented as
the base letter + combining diacritics). Of course a fraktur font
may decide to represent all s except the ending-s as long-s (where
"ending" may be in the middle of concatenated words).

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Dominikus Scherkl
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