[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Holocaust scholars wanting to encode German documents from the 1930s > > and 1940s would want the double runic S encoded, since this was a > > specific character found on type-writers of the era and saw regular use. > > Would <U+16CB> <U+16CB> be a reasonable substitute?
Yes, not only reasonable but it is what it used in lieu of the specific character. > I mentioned that Sigel is avoided by some who use the Futhark symbolicly. > Doubling it is obviously avoided even more. There is a practice of mirroring > the second rune in a word if it is the second of a double letter (like the 'l' > in 'hello'). I've wondered of late if this has any origin in how they would > have originally been written (I've heard of entire lines being mirrored, such > as on the Franks Casket, but not individual characters) or if it was a post-war > innovation to deliberately avoid writing SS. I hadn't heard of the mirroring of the individual letters like this, though I don't know too much about runic orthography. -- Tom Emerson Basis Technology Corp. Software Architect http://www.basistech.com "Beware the lollipop of mediocrity: lick it once and you suck forever"
