German sharp S uppercase mapping

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Tue Dec 3 15:15:30 CST 2024


Asmus Freytag via Unicode wrote in
 <2cf97bde-3925-4893-833a-70bb6620837d at ix.netcom.com>:
 |On 12/2/2024 2:37 PM, Steffen Nurpmeso via Unicode wrote:
 |> i want to point to that photo of
 |> Frankfurt/Main, where it is uppercase STRASSE
 |
 |In the labeling of the photo which likely was created on a typewriter 
 |(note monospaced font).
 |
 |I thought at first you had found an actual street sign.

No, unfortunately not.  I always thought such signs where in
Frakturschrift (also due to things like [1]),  but it seems most
"signs on the streets" (as opposed to street signs) were already
Antiqua.  I have a photo similar to the ones sent, from Berlin,
where on the market place there is an "Unfall Station" aka
"Accident Station" (aka first aid, ..likely).  However here in
Darmstadt at least there were, at least in the past, many "trimmed
to look traditional" street signs, and these were all Fraktur.
Looking around i see a collection of still remaining
Frakturschrift street signs from Munich [2], but they all use
normal casing and eszett (does not make sense to look thus, hm).

  [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur_(Schrift)#/media/Datei:Scripts_in_Europe_(1901).jpg
  [2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/MuenchenKontaktabzugFrakturschriftStrassenschilder.jpg/320px-MuenchenKontaktabzugFrakturschriftStrassenschilder.jpg

(Typewriter i do not know, but some kind of "print" for sure.)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)
|
|And in Fall, feel "The Dropbear Bard"s ball(s).
|
|The banded bear
|without a care,
|Banged on himself for e'er and e'er
|
|Farewell, dear collar bear


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