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Fraktur is interesting because it’s more a writing style, verging in a character set in its own right. However Unicode doesn’t directly support all of its ligat
by simonh 2y ago
Fraktur is interesting because it’s more a writing style, verging in a character set in its own right. However Unicode doesn’t directly support all of its ligatures and such.
None of this is in any way justification for turning Unicode into something like SVG. Even the pseudo-drawing capabilities it does have are largely for legacy reasons.
- kristopolous 2y agoFraktur at one point was genuinely a different script You can find texts in the late 1500-early 1900s at least that will switch to a fraktur style when quoting or using German. ANSI escape codes even accommodates for it. Codepoint 20: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Select_Graphic_Rendition_parameters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Select_Grap... Don't ask me why, I only work here. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_dispute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua%E2%80%93Fraktur_disput... I also don't find any of my predictions defensible as much as I believe they're inevitable. Again I've got no agency here.