Re: Aw: Re: Proposal for German capital letter "ß"

[Asmus Freytag (t)]

On 12/9/2015 11:57 PM, "Jörg Knappen" wrote: Since the captial sharp s is easily available to the public, I see it popping up everywhere in German publications, mostly in an all caps environment. I have a small collection of it (on paper).   The use of the capital sharp s in German is not only a historical artefact, it is recent and modern. Thanks for the info. Any way you could scan / photograph them and share them via a picture sharing site? Also, here's a nice writeup in English: http://typography.guru/journal/germanys-new-character/ A./   --Jörg Knappen   Martin Dürst wrote: However, the example is also somewhat misleading. The book in the picture is clearly quite old. The Duden that was cited is new. I checked with "Der Grosse Duden" on Amazon, but all the books I found had the officially correct spelling. On the other hand, I remember that when the upper-case sharp s came up for discussion in Unicode, source material showed that it was somewhat popular quite some time ago (possibly close in age with the old Duden picture). So we would have to go back and check the book in the picture to see what it says about ß to be able to claim that Duden was (at some point in time) inconsistent with itself. Regards, Martin.