Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-02 Thread Richard Wordingham via Unicode
On Sat, 01 Jul 2017 09:51:00 +0300 "a.lukyanov via Unicode" wrote: > Is it possible to design fonts that will render ẞ as SS? > > So we could choose between ẞ and SS by just selecting the proper > font, without changing the text itself. > > Or perhaps there will be a "font feature" to select th

Aw: Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-02 Thread Jörg Knappen
> Is it possible to design fonts that will render ẞ as SS?   In fact, that has happened long before the capital letter sharp s was added to Unicode: The T1 encoding (aka Cork encoding) of LaTeX does this since 1990. The reason for this was correct hyphenation for German words rendered in all c

Re: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

2017-07-02 Thread Michael Everson via Unicode
Now that it has been added, however, the situation is different. > On 2 Jul 2017, at 16:59, Jörg Knappen via Unicode wrote: > > > Is it possible to design fonts that will render ẞ as SS? > > In fact, that has happened long before the capital letter sharp s was added > to Unicode: The T1 enco