From: John Hudson ([email protected])
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 12:42:49 CST
Michael Everson wrote:
>> Yes, it's irresponsible and harmful, misrepresenting an ordinary ß in
>> various contexts of capital letters as a fictitious "capital ß".
> As a type designer I maintain, with the proposers, that the design of
> the capital in those examples is in fact different from "an ordinary ß".
And as another type designer, I agree that the design of the capital eszett is different
from an ordinary ß.
But I still don't think it is anything other than a glyph variant of SS.
To me the issue is how best to distinguish a desire for this glyph variant from SS when
used as a double-s instead of sharp-s, and Unicode already provides a mechanism for that
purpose: ZWJ
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Gulf Islands, BC [email protected] 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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