Re: Uppercase ß is coming? (U+1E9E)

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At 08:04 +0200 2007-05-08, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > See http://www.evertype.com/standards/iso10646/pdf/sharp-s.png
>> > where I have given an F, J, U, ß, long-s, and two capital sharp
>> > esses.
>
>Sorry to say but I dislike both of them.

See http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versal-Eszett for some more.

>I believe you. My thinking is that an uppercase form of ß should
>always look similar to `SS' -- as TeX shows, which has introduced an
>`SS' glyph about 20 years ago to make uppercasing give correct visual
>results.

Sorry to say but I think that's dreadful.

-- 
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com

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