On 2 Jul 2017, at 16:59, Jörg Knappen via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org> wrote:
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> > Is it possible to design fonts that will render ẞ as SS?
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> In fact, that has happened long before the capital letter sharp s was added to Unicode: The T1 encoding (aka Cork encoding) of LaTeX
> does this since 1990. The reason for this was correct hyphenation for German words rendered in all caps.
Wasn’t there also some oddity relating to hyphenation and “ss”/“SS” in general? I seem to recall that it used to be the case that you ended up with more “s”s than you started with when hyphenating a word containing “ss”…
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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