From: John Hudson ([email protected])
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 15:57:07 CST
Michael wrote:
> I bet the Duden thought "Capital ß" not "Capital special SS ligature".
I'm sure they did, but then I think of a small*cap* A glyph even when I know it is
representing a lowercase a character in the text string.
But according to the same Duden, uppercase ß = SS, so a capital ß is just another way of
writing SS. I wish it were not so, that there were an actual uppercase ß, but there isn't,
and this proposal does not introduce one: it just creates a glyph encoding for this form,
thereby inviting confusion and -- like the Arabic presentation forms -- needlessly
multiplying the ways in which the same text can be encoded.
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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