From: John Hudson (john@tiro.ca)
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 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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