From: Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>
Subject: Re: sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not)
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:34:22 +0200
Date: 2011-10-12T14:34:22+02:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <op.v266qcjxz25lew@macpro-eth1.krischik.com>
On 11.10.11 19:26, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Am 10.10.2011, 18:46 Uhr, schrieb Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>:
>
>> And my understanding was
>> that the origins of the "sharp s" was that it was a combination of s
>> and z
>
> Indeed it is the s and z written close together of Fraktur calligraphic:
>
It is not that easy (in theory):
http://www-nw.uni-regensburg.de/~brh22505/Ligatur/LIGATUR.HTM
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur
>
> These days Fraktur is only used by mathematicians for vector and matrix
> variables.
http://www.faz.net .-)
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-10 16:30 sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 16:46 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-10 18:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-10 22:25 ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-11 7:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 7:41 ` sharp ß " Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 8:33 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 20:32 ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 7:43 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 9:42 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-10-12 12:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 20:17 ` sharp " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 21:18 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 17:33 ` sharp ß " Martin Krischik
2011-10-11 18:54 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-12 13:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 13:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 18:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-12 20:06 ` sharp � " Randy Brukardt
2011-10-12 20:48 ` sharp ß " Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-12 22:56 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like AC CESS Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 8:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 12:13 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 13:25 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-13 15:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2011-10-13 19:17 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-10-11 7:33 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-10-11 14:32 ` Adam Beneschan
2011-10-11 17:26 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not) Martin Krischik
2011-10-12 12:34 ` Georg Bauhaus [this message]
2011-10-10 17:22 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS Simon Wright
2011-10-10 17:45 ` AdaMagica
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