In old Swedish there was a tradition of writing words of foreign origin in the Roman type of letters (in Swedish referred to as "antikva"), while the rest of the words were written in Fraktur. This is similar to the difference between katakana and hiragana/kanji in modern Japanese.
AFAIK, the criteria for adding any character to the Standard is that there should be a difference between the character and all the other characters already supported by the Standard. Here we have a such difference, doesn't this mean that Fraktur ought to be added to the Standard. I know that the letters A-z are already supported in the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbol block (and some in the Letterlike Symbols block), but some diacritics would also be necessary, for example ß and ſ. If any proposal were written, then would there be any chance that the characters might be added to the Standard? Stefan _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
