Long S on keyboard (was: Character identities)

[Otto Stolz]

Doug Ewell wrote:


I'm not aware of any keyboard layout, German or otherwise, that contains
U+017F.  Would it be reasonable to suggest that it be added to the
standard German layout?  AltGr+s seems to be available.


It would certainly not hurt to have it there.

Fraktur, and Long-s, are not much used, these days. So, there will be
not much demand for a long-s key -- though it would come handy for some
kinds of usage, e. g. modern advertising, or reproducing texts from
before ~1950 (cf. ).

Most German Fraktur fonts currently available seem to have particular,
proprietary encodings. A standardized Long-s key would certainly help
to promote Unicode amongst Fraktur font designers.

Best wishes,
  Otto Stolz

Re: Long S on keyboard (was: Character identities)

[Patrick Andries]

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Objet : Long S on keyboard (was: Character identities)


> Doug Ewell wrote:
>
> > I'm not aware of any keyboard layout, German or otherwise, that contains
> > U+017F.  Would it be reasonable to suggest that it be added to the
> > standard German layout?  AltGr+s seems to be available.

To whom would you suggest such an addition? DIN ? Are its standard as
loosely followed as the Canadian standards as far as PC keyboards are
concerned? It is about impossible to find the CSA/ACNOR keyboard (CAN/CSA
Z243.200-92) in the main office and electronic equipement stores in
Canada...

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Re: Long S on keyboard (was: Character identities)

[Michael Everson]

At 12:47 -0400 2002-10-24, Patrick Andries wrote:

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 Doug Ewell wrote:

 > I'm not aware of any keyboard layout, German or otherwise, that contains
 > U+017F.  Would it be reasonable to suggest that it be added to the

 > > standard German layout?  AltGr+s seems to be available.


I'm developing some drivers which take it into account. Of course GHA 
and WYNN and HWAIR are of greater concern to me
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Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com