From: Mark E. Shoulson (mark@kli.org)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 09:43:32 EST
On 12/15/03 08:42, jon@hackcraft.net wrote:
>>Holocaust scholars wanting to encode German documents from the 1930s
>>and 1940s would want the double runic S encoded, since this was a
>>specific character found on type-writers of the era and saw regular use.
>>
>>
>
>Would <U+16CB> <U+16CB> be a reasonable substitute?
>
>I mentioned that Sigel is avoided by some who use the Futhark symbolicly.
>Doubling it is obviously avoided even more. There is a practice of mirroring
>the second rune in a word if it is the second of a double letter (like the 'l'
>in 'hello'). I've wondered of late if this has any origin in how they would
>have originally been written (I've heard of entire lines being mirrored, such
>as on the Franks Casket, but not individual characters) or if it was a post-war
>innovation to deliberately avoid writing SS.
>
>
Is this like baseball scoreboards showing the third consecutive
strikeout symbol (which is a K) reversed? Is that to avoid "KKK" or is
it for another reason?
~mark
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