From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
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 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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