Comment 11 for bug 650498
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| soc (simon-ochsenreither) wrote Re: Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) | #11 |
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The sharp s is a character, NOT A LIGATURE!
A ligature is a typographical refinement to improve the appearance of two letters appearing next to each other.
The most important aspect of a ligature is that it doesn't change the meaning of words.
Yes, the sharp s WAS a ligature once. But w was once a ligature too. Should we therefore decide to remove W and write VV again instead?
If people could just stop repeating the same non-sense over and over again and actually start checking the facts?
The upper-case substitution of ß with SS was _never_ meant to be a permanent solution, it was something we call a "workaround" today, because it is exactly that.
PS: Could we just leave out that ß-hating here? It has nothing to do with that particular topic here?