On 04.07.2017 12:19, Otto Stolz via Unicode wrote:
I was referring to contemporary writing systems. Indeed, several east European
languages (including, e. g. Latvian) were written in blackletter, with German
sound-letter correspondence, before they developped their own writing systems.
Sure. It’s nothing that needs to be taken into account, if you ask me.
The only word to be printed in blackletter all-caps was – as far as I know –
“der HERR”, or “der HErr”, meaning “the Lord” (in texts from the bible). In
general, blackletter capitals are not designed for all-caps, so that would look
disgustingly. Thence the form “HErr“ which is a bit more readable.
You can rarely find blackletter all-caps on title pages, e.g.:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Die_Lesung_derer_Romans,_als_ein_sehr_bedenkliches_Mittel_seine_Schreibart_zu_verbessern.djvu
(While the word in all-caps is “Herr”, it is here used in the meaning of
“mister” and not “the Lord”.)
Most often this happens to place names.
