[XeTeX] : Re: wrong uccode of ß

[Adam Twardoch]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> I have the impression they are a bit mixing the meaning "LATIN CAPITAL
> LETTER SHARP S" and the look. I agree that a char with the meaning
> "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S" is necessary. It would also solve the
> lowercase problem.  But why can this char not have some times the look
> "ß" (if it can't be avoided) and sometimes "SS" or even "SZ"? 
>   
Ulrike,

the Unicode Standard does not prescribe the exact shape of ANY 
character, and especially not of any letter. After all, we have many 
different kinds of the letter "a" or "g". Andreas Stötzner has prepared 
an exhaustive study of different (and still not all) possible stylistic 
variants of the uppercase ß:

http://www.signographie.de/cms/upload/pdf/SIGNA9_SHARP_S_variants.pdf
http://www.signographie.de/cms/upload/pdf/SIGNA9_SHARP_S_howto.pdf

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