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I've seen Greek, Russian and even Arabic written with Latin letters on the internet for convenience. So ss for ß or the other way round is only a minor inconven
by gpvos 9y ago
I've seen Greek, Russian and even Arabic written with Latin letters on the internet for convenience. So ss for ß or the other way round is only a minor inconvenience, if even that. By the way, typing ij as two letters is the official way to do it; only in handwriting and occasional signage will you see it written as one glyph. I have no idea why the ij digraph/ligature ended up in Unicode, really.
- carey 9y agoIt's probably for round-tripping with old single byte character sets. In this case, with Dutch VT220 character encodings.