Eszett

[Michael Everson]

On 11 Jul 2009, at 09:44, Peter Dambier wrote:

> Sorry to repeat, but I am afraid it got lost down deep in discussion.
>
> There is no eszett.

Of course there is. Whether you call it eszett or scharfes ess or  
whatever, there is a letter. It originated as a ligature in Fraktur.  
But it is no longer a ligature, any more than w is a ligature of v and  
v. Or u and u.

In any case we are talking about the coded characters U+00DF ß LATIN  
SMALL LETTER SHARP S amd U+1E9E ẞ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S.

Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/