Yes, there has to be something in that slot, David. But I can’t support your antipathy against the proposed form of the capital ß. It’s definetely not “a strange and distorted ‘big’ version of ß”. Maybe you judge it as a wired form BECAUSE you aren’t German speaker an aren’t used to it. Think åbout lettérş of oŧher lænǥűageƨ. If you don’t see them in evǝrydɐy textƶ, the appear literally as a foreign partiçles. The best thing a font can do is to design them carefully so that they fit into the font.
A nice PDF about the “construction” of ẞ is http://www.signographie.de/cms/upload/pdf/SIGNA9_SHARP_S_howto.pdf from the German typograph Andreas Stötzer. He (amongst others) has proposed the Dresdner Form of the ẞ to the Unicode Consortium. More material of this in my opinion very felicitous archetype you can find at http://www.signographie.de/cms/signa_9.htm (in German but maybe the images give an impression) I love the ẞ and I am very proud of having the special letter ß in my language. I’m also happy to have the capital ß as a possibility to make my capitalized family name really non-ambiguous. Please respect the Eigenwilligkeiten (~individualities, originalities) of non-Englisch languages and don’t try to “fix” them. I hope this post wasn’t to emotionally, but to vilify the ẞ isn’t also very objective. -- 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 ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
