IMO, the addition of the cap Eszettt was idiotic in the first place. It is typographically and grammatically incorrect. The eszett is a lowercase ligature made up of long-s and short-s and, really, is a historical character. In the past other languages, incl English and French used to use an Eszett but sensibly did away with it over time. Ideally, the Germans in the last reform of good grammar should have killed off this character, too. All they did was to 'simplify' the rules for the eszett but I think it's application has become even more arbitrary.
Since there is this Unicode point we ought to fill it. But I bluntly refuse to make a cap design of the Eszett for the simple reason that it is wrong. A double-S composite will do the trick. Yes, there is the potential of the word 'MASSE' as described above, but humans also take context into account when reading and I would suggest that most are quite capable to distinguish the meaning from one to another. Furthermore, capitalisation should happen at system/app level that automatically changes the eszett into SS when the appropriate command is given. Incidentally, the Swiss have never applied the eszett and have managed to have a happy and continuous fruitful democracy for over 150 years. It is not missed at all in Switzerland. -- Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
