LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

Michael Everson via Unicode unicode at unicode.org
Sun Jul 2 11:07:08 CDT 2017


Now that it has been added, however, the situation is different. 

> On 2 Jul 2017, at 16:59, Jörg Knappen via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> 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 encoding (aka Cork encoding) of LaTeX
> does this since 1990. The reason for this was correct hyphenation for German words rendered in all caps.
>  
> --Jörg Knappen




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