Comment 13 for bug 650498

soc says: PS: Could we just leave out that ß-hating here? It has nothing to do with that particular topic here?

I think it has very much to do with the topic at hand. It is about quality. As much as some people argue that a specific cap eszett should be designed we should equally consider the opposite view, not just simply adhere because some bureaucrats have decided, in their infinite wisdom, that it is now a good idea to have an uppercase version of a glyph. If Galilei would have simply agreed to the churche's wisdom ships would still fall off the edge of the world today. Unfortunately, we are lumbered with the cap-eszett Unicode point and we eventually have to fill it. That does not mean we should put a crap design into it.

I stand by my assertion that eszett is a ligature in the knowledge that Tschichold and other typographers agree with me. In addition the meaning of the words 'Busse' and 'Buße' or 'Masse/Maße' is not defined by the s-sound but by the pronunciation of the preceeding vowel (short/long). The preceeding vowel dictates the usage of eszett, except where the eszett is at the end of a syllable (or have they changed that now?).