On 2 Jul 2017, at 16:59, Jörg Knappen via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> 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 since 1990. The reason for this was correct hyphenation for German > words rendered in all caps.
Wasn’t there also some oddity relating to hyphenation and “ss”/“SS” in general? I seem to recall that it used to be the case that you ended up with more “s”s than you started with when hyphenating a word containing “ss”… Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net
