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
capital "S".
Here's a hyperlink to an old German font (noti
Actually, MS Word offers an option to keep or drop accents when converting
lower case to upper case in its spell checker options. I comprehend to the
Turkish translation. They've got two different letter "i", one with and one
without the dot ("ı"). But that's all not pointing to the direction of
Yes, they do it wrong because (1) they don't know better and (2) they let their
software convert lower case text into upper case (a feature nearly every
typographic software provides).
Yet, if we let the majority of illiterate people decide what's right and what's
wrong we could as easily decid
y encoded as u+004D u+0041 u+1E9E u+0045. Yet, AFAIK, the
current glyph would currently be considered an error.
Proposal: Shouldn't the glyph be amended to match the natural language?
Cheers,
Axel
From: Dreiheller, Albrecht
Sent: Wednesday, December
Currently there is a vast problem trying to determine the lower case equivalent
of a capitalized German word like "MASSE".
This is due to the fact that an orthographic rule exists to convert lower case
letter "ß" to upper case letters "SS". So after converting a word from lower
case to upper c
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