Comment 81 for bug 650498

So it’s been almost 22 months, a bunch of Ubuntu font family updates, and we STILL don’t have full coverage for German, one of the most important languages of Ubuntu users and developers?

While always having been used in analog context (see countless headstones in German cemeteries and hand-painted signs in German towns), ẞ has also gone mainstream in digital contexts. I’ll give just one example: Germany’s #2 utility has been using ẞ in its advertisement as a matter of course: http://instagram.com/p/MdkESLh_Z9/

I think it’d be hard to find a more mainstream and culturally conservative company than a 100-billion-euro utility! If it is using ẞ without a second thought in ads that need to be immediately understood by the everyman, ẞ *is* in the mainstream.

So why can’t we have it in the Ubuntu UI fonts? The Windows C-fonts all come with ẞ, by the way. Does Ubuntu’s typography really want to be less current than Windows’ typography?

Bottom line: without ẞ, we don’t have full coverage for German. Shouldn’t this bug have a high(er) priority?