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It is not just a font choice, it is a different set of characters that share some connection. The same way as you can't just spell any german word that contain
by anyfoo 11y ago
It is not just a font choice, it is a different set of characters that share some connection.
The same way as you can't just spell any german word that contains digraphs for Umlauts with the actual Umlauts. I made the "Oehler"/"Öhler" example above. People who are named Oehler would probably be pretty annoyed at your insistence to spell their name wrong, just like people here are annoyed at your spelling of daemon.
I assume you do not come from a country which has an extended latin alphabet? In Germany for example, it is pretty common to clarify how to spell such names on the phone, like saying "Mueller with U-E". If that would be a font choice, this would not be an issue.
- Dylan16807 11y agoLong s is the same character as short s. OE and Ö are not the same character. æ is a ligature in some contexts, and its own letter in others. None of which matters to the original question.
- kuschku 11y agoſ and s is not the same character – in some languages at some times, it was used to mark a sharper s. Combined with the z, from ſz came ß later.