From: Tom Emerson (tree@basistech.com)
Date: Mon Dec 15 2003 - 09:04:07 EST
jon@hackcraft.net 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"
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