Can you give an example of any font which has two glyphs in it for ß? I mean, I was in Berlin and I took this picture:
http://evertype.com/standards/unicode-list/seydlitzstr.jpg Do you think we should encode a Latin straight y (like the Cyrillic one) so we can write Seүdlitzstraſʒe? > On 6 Apr 2017, at 13:37, Christoph Päper <christoph.pae...@crissov.de> wrote: > > U+00DF Latin Letter Sharp S ⟨ß⟩ has at least two rather different visual > styles resulting from a ligature of either long and round lowercase S, ⟨ſs⟩, > or of long S and normal or tailed lowercase Z, ⟨ſz⟩ or ⟨ſʒ⟩. Most modern > typeface designs follow the first style and sometimes the right-hand side is > quite distinct from the shape of the round S in the same font. In some cases > it makes sense to distinguish the glyphic origins, because, by orthographic > or graphotactic means, for instance, an _sz_ digraph is appropriate in > different places than an _ss_ repeated letter. > > Would it make sense to propose standardized variation sequences for these > styles or should this be left to font features like `cv##` or `calt` in > Opentype?
