First I want to apologize to everyone in this thread if he or she felt I worded my arguments in a too confrontational way. Denis' and Paul's comments are good examples of staying calm, a behavior which I should try to achieve next time.
Dear Bruno, I also have strong feelings about language, type design and its quality, as you may have experienced. First of all I think calling your colleagues who proposed the Versaleszett to the Unicode consortium, validated its origins and history and invested a lot of time and work to improve the current situation "bureaucrats" is not helpful, but it is not my right or duty to judge about that. Additionally I disagree with your point about "agreement to wisdom". Currently it is "wisdom" that "a capital eszett does not exist", despite obvious, valid and verified proof of the exact opposite situation for at least 130 years. I really don't want to argue about the usage of the ß or the particular (maybe ambiguous) spelling of a fairly limited number of German words. In my humble opinion, everyone on that thread is not that far away with his position than it seems. We all care deeply about quality and one thing we surely all hate is the mixing of upper-case and lower-case letters. Having a capital ß is not about trying to change rules or telling people how they have to write. Neither there is an agenda to increase (nor decrease) the usage of that small letter you dislike so much (for reasons I disagree, but I try to respect your point of view). The main benefit of having a Versaleszett is something we might all agree about: To provide an acceptable alternative to mixing lower-case and upper-case letters, where neither the substitution of ß with SS nor other workarounds are feasible. (Of course people should learn that WRITING IN CAPS is a thing which should probably reduced to an absolute minimum.) Eventually I want to clarify that probable no one who disagrees with you considers to burn you on a stake, like that institution you took for comparison did, so I fell a insulted and sad about your wording. I hope - and I will try my best - that we can have a more friendly and respectful discussion here in the future, that we can agree to disagree and still try our best to find the best technical solution for that issue, regardless if an individual person likes or dislikes the idea. I really hope that you are not too angry about the whole thread here and would be happy if you and your team could still try to come up with the best design for the Versaleszett possible. Thanks! -- 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
