Re: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 15:07:39 CST

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    At 11:53 -0700 2007-05-04, John Hudson wrote:
    >Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
    >
    >>No argument there. There *shouldn't* be such a
    >>thing as capital ß. But Unicode is descriptive
    >>and not prescriptive. Obviously, people are
    >>using this misbegotten character, so it needs
    >>to have a code point.
    >
    >Or are they using this misbegotten glyph
    >variant, in which case it needs to have
    >appropriate glyph level activation?
    >
    >It seems to me to be begging the question to assume that it is a character.

    I bet the Duden thought "Capital ß" not "Capital special SS ligature".

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    Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
    


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