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Re: [groff] 04/28: groff_char(7): Revise glyph descriptions.
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Colin Watson |
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Re: [groff] 04/28: groff_char(7): Revise glyph descriptions. |
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Thu, 3 Sep 2020 13:18:46 +0100 |
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On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 11:36:36PM +1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > -\[char223] \[char223] 223 germandbls u00DF German double s (sharp s)
> > > +\[char223] \[char223] 223 germandbls u00DF lowercase sharp s
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> [there is no uppercase Eszett]
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> Au contraire! It's U+1E9E, added in Unicode 5.0.[1]
Also adopted by the Council for German Orthography in 2017
(https://www.rechtschreibrat.com/DOX/rfdr_Regeln_2016_veroeffentlicht_2017.pdf,
2.3 ยง 25). It's not part of the orthography I learned in school either,
and I imagine there are a fair few native speakers who prefer not to use
it (it is ever thus), but it seems reasonable for groff to follow the
official rules.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwatson@debian.org]