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Capital ß
editHi Plauz, I see why you have removed my addition. The point I was trying to make is that the creation of the Unicode character Uppercase Sharp S does not necessarily have typographical implications (although I'm sure font foundries will react in one way or another). Unicode doesn't prescribe what the character looks like, so depending on the font it may look like a modified ß as it is the case in Linux Libertine or like SS (which is how many all-caps fonts handle the lowercase ß right now). So the letter ẞ (supposed to look like the GDR Duden one here) and the Unicode character Uppercase Sharp S are not one and the same. If you know what I'm trying to say, maybe you know a way of including it in the article. --85.181.226.226 (talk) 11:38, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- Yes, that makes sense to me. I gave it a try. :-) I put the focus less on a certain glyph variant (like an SS-ligature and similar proposals), but on the lack of consensus in the typographers' community. What do you think? --plauz (talk) 13:26, 27 April 2008 (UTC)