<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">26 feb. 2022 kl. 17:21 skrev Daphne Preston-Kendal via Unicode <<a href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org" class="">unicode@corp.unicode.org</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 26 Feb 2022, at 14:32, Sai via Unicode wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hello all.<br class=""><br class="">Does Unicode have an existing way to encode the e-inside-o /<br class="">o-enclosing-e* variant o-e ligature for German ö?<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">It could reasonably be considered a typographical variant of ö or of the<br class="">combination o / O + U+0364 COMBINING LATIN SMALL LETTER E.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>It is most definitely <b class="">NOT</b> a glyph variant of <font size="5" class="">Ö</font>. With <b class="">quite a bit of stretch</b> it may be considered a glyph variant of <font size="5" class="">oͤ</font> (small or capital).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>After all, having the double dots inside of <span style="font-size: x-large;" class="">Ö</span> (and similar) is considered a glyph variant of <span style="font-size: x-large;" class="">Ö</span> (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: <span style="font-size: 15px;" class=""><span class="token property" style="font-family: consolas, "Liberation Mono", courier, monospace; letter-spacing: -0.0444444px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(163, 0, 8);">font-variant-caps</span><span class="token punctuation" style="font-family: consolas, "Liberation Mono", courier, monospace; letter-spacing: -0.0444444px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);">:</span><span style="font-family: consolas, "Liberation Mono", courier, monospace; color: rgb(27, 27, 27); letter-spacing: -0.0444444px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""> small-caps</span></span><span class="token punctuation" style="font-family: consolas, "Liberation Mono", courier, monospace; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.0444444px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(109, 109, 109);">;</span>and <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: Consolas, Menlo, "courier new", monospace; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">text-transform</span><span class="csspropertyvaluecolor" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: mediumblue; font-family: Consolas, Menlo, "courier new", monospace; font-size: 15px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="cssdelimitercolor" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: black;">:</span> uppercase<span class="cssdelimitercolor" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: black;">;</span></span>. (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.)</div></div><br class=""><div class="">/Kent K</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>