On 04.07.2017 12:19, Otto Stolz via Unicode wrote:
I was referring to contemporary writing systems. Indeed, several east European
languages (including, e. g. Latvian) were written in blackletter, with German
sound-letter correspondence, before they developped their own writing systems.
Sure.
On 03.07.2017 19:01, Otto Stolz via Unicode wrote:
Since German ist the only language using “ß” (if I am not mistaken), […]
Some old Sorbian (blackletter) orthographies also employed the ß. It was also
used at the beginning of words where it was capitalised to Sſ at the beginning
of sentences
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:19:36 +0100, Hans Meiser wrote:
After all, the "ß" is just a ligature of "ss" (or, to be precise: a ligature of "sz", originating
from old German fonts - see hyperlink below), so I suggest the rendered outcome of the capital "ß" to be just the same:
A ligature of two ca
On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:55:24 +0100, Hans Meiser wrote:
Yet, AFAIK, the current glyph would currently be considered an error.
See it like this: The point of spelling rules is to easy reading. However, the
use of SS for capital ß is rather obstrusive, as it is not exactly frequent in
everyday
My proposal is to introduce a capital letter equivalent of "ß" that's resembling two capital
"S" letters: "SS".
Actually, the capital ß is already included in Unicode (ẞ) because it was and
is used as a separate letter (not looking like SS), though only rarely. It is
now realised as a proper
On Mon, 08 Jun 2015 21:59:50 +0200, Gilbert Lozano
wrote:
Can someone help me find the code for the small (minuscule) p with macron above?
U+0070: p
U+0304: combining macron
Put those two characters after each other and you get: p̄.
On Sun, 31 May 2015 16:32:36 +0200, Janusz S. Bień wrote:
I'm curious what was the motivation for adding the character to Unicode.
According to the Code Chart for Latin Extended B
(http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0180.pdf), it’s used for Sencoten. It was
also used in some old Norwegian t
(with
no satisfying conclusion in my opinion):
http://german.stackexchange.com/q/10055/2594
Gerrit Ansmann
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On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:50:45 +0100, Richard Wordingham
wrote:
I don't like the idea, but one possibility would be to define Serbian glyph
styles by adding variation selectors. Variation selectors are already
'defined' for the decimal digits U+0030 to U+0039. It would, however, mess up
str
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:37:19 +0100, Крушевљанин wrote:
There is still problem with letters бгдпт in italic, and б in regular mode.
OpenType support is still very weak (Firefox, LibreOffice on Linux, Adobe's
software and that's it, practically). It's also disappointing that Microsoft is
still
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:50:23 +0200, Charlie Ruland ☘
wrote:
One final remark: Thinking about it I have the impression that the blackletter
vs. antiqua distinction once made in German very much resembles that made
between Hiragana and Katakana in Japanese. In both cases the underlying systems
did not seem to stop people from using a long s in
Antiqua from time to time. There are a lot of post-1901 Antiqua display fonts
that contain a long s as well as examples from normal text. This very rarely
happens even today: http://www.trueffelschweinberlin.com
Regards,
Gerrit Ansmann
fault. You might need the occasional ZWNJ to avoid an automatic
ligature, but in that respect there is no difference to Antiqua fonts with
ligatures.
Regards,
Gerrit Ansmann
raktur and antiqua.
Gerrit Ansmann
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:55:43 +0200, Markus Scherer wrote:
For use in IPA etc., there are in fact small caps letters:
http://unicode.org/cldr/utility/list-unicodeset.jsp?a=%5B%3Aname%3D%2FSMALL+CAPITAL%2F%3A%5D&g=
For small caps as a style, you would use markup.
I am fully aware of all this.
s a lot of redundancy in language for a reason.
Gerrit Ansmann
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:51:04 +0100, Elbrecht wrote:
that's just my first guess - no blackslash available the printer replaced with
what was available in his set…
I would be really surprised, if this was the glyph closest to a backslash
available. I am no expert on classical typesetting, but
On Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:17:09 +0100, Michael Everson
wrote:
Randomly reversed long s?
Hmm, this would not fit the sloped serif. Rather a flipped, dotless j.
Wildly guessing, I would say, that whoever made the cover wanted it to reflect
“Widerspruch” (contradiction) or the tertium non datur
,
that these have not already been proposed? (I have searched
http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.html and
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4031.pdf.)
Regards,
Gerrit Ansmann<>
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