From: John Hudson ([email protected])
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 20:37:48 CST
Michael Everson wrote:
> But then I think that most of the lower-case Latin letters in the
> standard which are missing upper-case pairs should be given their upper
> case pairs.
And I'm inclined to agree with you on that. But to encode them in such a way that they do
not actually behave as uppercase forms of those lowercase letters seems a less good idea.
I'm looking at the uppercase eszett proposal in terms of whether there is a way to have
this cake and eat it too: whether there is a way to make a plain text distinction between
SS and [ß] that remains compatible with existing implementations and ensures a readable
uppercase display of ß without the need for every font in the world to be updated to
support the new character. [I suppose I shouldn't be arguing so hard: we made some good
money updating fonts to include the euro symbol.]
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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