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Unicode attempts to render all human-written documents. That's why U+A66E (ꙮ), a character found once in one single document, is still considered acceptable. ẞ
by jeroenhd 2y ago
Unicode attempts to render all human-written documents. That's why U+A66E (ꙮ), a character found once in one single document, is still considered acceptable.
ẞ is not a good capital letter of ß, but if that one single book ever gets transcribed into digital text, a unicode character code is necessary for that to happen.
I doubt systems that can't deal with the ß -> SS transcription will be able to deal with ẞ in the first place.
- Tomte 2y agoIt‘s not as simple as you make it to be. Klingon script was rejected, partly because of "Lack of evidence of usage in published literature", despite many web sites and more than a handful of published books using it.
- account42 2y agoꙮ is a farce like many other Unicode inclusions. Good for a laugh but best forgotten. If you want to encode that level of stylistic choice then you really need to start encoding the specific font used too. Next you are going to ask Unicode to include all fancy stylized initials which are of course specific to the paragraph in a single book they are used in? At that point just embed SVGs directly in Unicode because the fight for any semantic meaning has been lost.