Re: German S letters (was: Obsolete character forms)

From: Herman Ranes (herman@iet.hist.no)
Date: Tue Jun 06 2000 - 10:13:52 EDT

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Does anybody know about a downloadable Windows 'fraktur' font which
contains a long-s in its appropriate position U+017F ?

Otto Stolz skreiv:
>
> Am 2000-06-06 um 01:43 h (GMT-0800) hat rampshot@usa.net geschrieben:
> > the obsolete form of lowercase s (U+017F)
>
> In Fraktur (~ Blackletter), and in old-style German handwriting, German
> orthography discriminates between two different small-S letters, the
> "round S", U+0073, and the "long S", U+017F.
>

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