--- Forwarded from Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> --- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 22:18:26 +0100 Author: Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> From: Steffen Nurpmeso <[email protected]> To: Daphne Preston-Kendal <[email protected]> Subject: Re: German sharp S uppercase mapping Message-ID: <20241216211826.Dt3h2MaC@steffen%sdaoden.eu>
Daphne Preston-Kendal via Unicode wrote in <[email protected]>: |On 2 Dec 2024, at 11:19, Marius Spix via Unicode <[email protected]\ |rg> wrote: ... |wrong in the first place.[.] The thing is the reforms of the last republican century went into the wrong direction. For example around 1900 there was "Oele sind ölig", which today looks odd but isn't it a more aesthetic experience than having an uppercase Umlaut. Necessarily the dots above etc scratch at some upper baseline, astronomic. This is not a music sheet of Bach (or other opulent classical composer). There was Kenntniss "Knowledge" as-you-speak which was mutilated to Kenntnis but remained Kenntnisse in plural for only technical reasons. Thran became Tran, that is surely because the people started using solely the Tran of Switzerland, Ovomaltine it is, is it, and then you say "aaaah, beautiful, Tran!!", instead. Same for Werthe, which became Werte, which is only understandable if you have no value left except money, it necessarily must be Werthe in all other thinkable occasions. And then really, necessarily there is not only eszett which is no(t) (longer) sz as the name es-zett implies (wrongly referred to in Unicode, likely with malicious anti-german intention), but a dedicated character, and it is absolutely necessary to provide uppercase font mappings that bring it all to the top regarding intransparent obviousness, and with LiberationMono font i know which of ßẞ is, actually, uppercase. Or make it ſs. I am fine with that. It is better than todays world where so-called academic intellectual elite magazines which run their text through automatic spell checkers produce more typos and "hanging in the nowhere" sentences that police allows. Other than that this is solely a polemic private opinion for sure. -- End forward <20241216211826.Dt3h2MaC@steffen%sdaoden.eu> --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) | |And in Fall, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s ball(s). | |The banded bear |without a care, |Banged on himself for e'er and e'er | |Farewell, dear collar bear
