From: Frank Ellermann (nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de)
Date: Fri May 04 2007 - 04:22:32 CST
Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>> That's complete rubbish, there's no such thing as an "upper case ß".
>> DIN would be dissolved by law if they'd ever support this nonsense.
> I'm sorry, but it is *that* comment which is complete rubbish.
Thanks for the warning about the broken PDF, for unknown reasons the
text pages and the 1E??-table work with AcroReader 3. The evidence
on these pages is what's today an ordinary ß in a larger font, while
the lower case ß in these examples is the variant I've learned in
school ("Grüß Gott, Kasperl") some decades ago (long-s z ligature).
It's not a new character. It shows that an ordinary ß is sometimes
used together with capital letters instead of SS (or even SZ), and
the result is perfectly readable. It's u+00DF, you have it already.
Frank
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