Re: Is long s a presentation form?

From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Fri Nov 08 2002 - 12:34:01 EST

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From: "Thomas Lotze" <thomas.lotze@uni-jena.de>
To: <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 5:37 PM
Subject: Is long s a presentation form?

> Why is the long form of the small latin letter s considered a character
> in its own right?

Because its usage in some languages (e.g. Swedish and German) requires that.
A list of all words in those languages would *not* be sufficient, as there
are some words that only differ in the "s" used.

(Which makes me wonder why Fraktur isn't included as characters, even though
a spelling rule in those languages requires that in a similar way.)

Stefan

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