Re: E-inside-o / o-enclosing-e variant of German ö

[Kent Karlsson]

> 26 feb. 2022 kl. 17:21 skrev Daphne Preston-Kendal via Unicode <unicode at corp.unicode.org>:
> 
> On 26 Feb 2022, at 14:32, Sai via Unicode wrote:
> 
>> Hello all.
>> 
>> Does Unicode have an existing way to encode the e-inside-o /
>> o-enclosing-e* variant o-e ligature for German ö?
> 
> 
> It could reasonably be considered a typographical variant of ö or of the
> combination o / O + U+0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E.

It is most definitely NOT a glyph variant of Ö. With quite a bit of stretch it may be considered a glyph variant of oͤ (small or capital).

After all, having the double dots inside of Ö (and similar) is considered a glyph variant of Ö (see Alexander Lang’s message in this thread) and even capitals or small capitals are sometimes considered variants of small letters, Opentype fonts can even have ”feature tags” for that, and similarly for CSS: font-variant-caps: small-caps;and text-transform: uppercase;. (The latter is called a ”transform”, but CSS is about styling, so it is actually a styling not a transform; the stored text is not changed.)

/Kent K

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