Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-03 Thread Gerrit Ansmann via Unicode
On 03.07.2017 19:01, Otto Stolz via Unicode wrote: Since German ist the only language using “ß” (if I am not mistaken), […] Some old Sorbian (blackletter) orthographies also employed the ß. It was also used at the beginning of words where it was capitalised to Sſ at the beginning of

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-03 Thread Doug Ewell via Unicode
a.lukyanov wrote: > Is it possible to design fonts that will render ẞ as SS? > > So we could choose between ẞ and SS by just selecting the proper font, > without changing the text itself. > > Or perhaps there will be a "font feature" to select this rendering > within the same font. I thought

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-03 Thread Otto Stolz via Unicode
Hello, am 2017-06-30 um 17:34 Uhr hat Michael Everson geschrieben: It would be sensible to case-map ß to ẞ however. Since German ist the only language using “ß” (if I am not mistaken), Unicode should comply with the official German orthographic rules with respect to this letter. As I have

Re: Aw: Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-03 Thread Werner LEMBERG via Unicode
> No, the hyphenation oddity involving the addition of letters with > hyphenation (or, to be more precise, to suppress letters in > unhyphenated words) never affected the letter s. I'm not sure that this is really true. As far as I know, `sss' in Swiss German was handled similar to other

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-03 Thread Otto Stolz via Unicode
Hello, am 2017-07-03 um 18:16 Uhr habe ich geschrieben: This rule did hold for all consonants, there’s nothing particular about double-s. On 2017-07-03 at 18:05 Jörg Knappen had written: the hyphenation oddity … never affected the letter s. Jörg is right. I forgot the additional rule that

Aw: Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-03 Thread Jörg Knappen
No, the hyphenation oddity involving the addition of letters with hyphenation (or, to be more precise, to suppress letters in unhyphenated words) never affected the letter s. It affected other letters (I know examples for f, l, m, n, p, r, and t) when followed by a vowel, like in

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-03 Thread Alastair Houghton via Unicode
On 2 Jul 2017, at 16:59, Jörg Knappen via Unicode wrote: > > > Is it possible to design fonts that will render ẞ as SS? > > In fact, that has happened long before the capital letter sharp s was added > to Unicode: The T1 encoding (aka Cork encoding) of LaTeX > does this