From: Hausmann, Michael (MHAUSMANN@bridgew.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 29 2003 - 11:24:54 EST
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From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org on behalf of John Delacour
Sent: Sun 12/28/2003 4:24 PM
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Subject: Re: German 0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E
At 2:52 pm -0500 28/12/03, John Cowan wrote:
> > For the same reason, why is the German "ess-tsett" (sharp S) given a
>> compatibility decomposition as <s><s> instead of <long-s><s>?
>
>Because in modern German orthography, the sharp-s is replaced by "ss" if
>the sharp-s is not available.
Michel de Montaigne displays a nice variety of esses in this letter
to the King:
<http://bd8.com/temp/mm_lettre.jpg>
It looks as if he never wrote long s+s but he seems to be pretty flexible.
English practice was generally, I think, to write the long s first
but _printed_ double s is always two tall longs, certainly in the
18th century:
<http://bd8.com/temp/georg1778.jpg>
I have some older Italian manuscripts including a letter from
Petrarch but I can't find them at the moment. The Italian first s
was tall and overhanging.
It's too late to tie these guys down to the rules of our illiterate world.
JD
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