From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Tue May 08 2007 - 07:43:40 CDT
Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> Oddly enough -- and I know this may be off topic -- I think the SS
> symbol should maybe make it into Unicode. Nazi-era German typewriters
> tend to have it as a glyph of its own, on a separate key. So it may be
> needed for proper encoding of Nazi-era documents. I wonder.
I think it's been suggested, and given the importance given the glyphs
during the Nazi era I think you are correct. Typewriters and typefaces
in Germany had to support the symbol, it *was* a character in existence
at the time, and Unicode supports historic characters.
When this has been suggested, the answer usually given is that this is
to be considered a pair of (variant) U+16CB RUNIC LETTER SIGEL
LONG-BRANCH-SOL S (ᛋ). I think that was the rune suggested.
Similarly, years ago, I noted that I thought—and still think—that the
Nazi swastika should be encoded, for similar historic reasons. It was
not just an important symbol of the times, but I seem to think it found
its way into text uses as well (as a dingbat, to be sure, but still used).
I don't think I could be the one to propose it, though.
~mark
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