From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 12:53:37 CST
Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> No argument there. There *shouldn't* be such a thing as capital ß. But
> Unicode is descriptive and not prescriptive. Obviously, people are
> using this misbegotten character, so it needs to have a code point.
Or are they using this misbegotten glyph variant, in which case it needs to have
appropriate glyph level activation?
It seems to me to be begging the question to assume that it is a character.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC tiro@tiro.com We say our understanding measures how things are, and likewise our perception, since that is how we find our way around, but in fact these do not measure. They are measured. -- Aristotle, Metaphysics
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