From: "Martin Krischik" <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not)
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:26:26 +0200
Date: 2011-10-11T19:26:26+02:00 [thread overview]
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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:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraktur
These days Fraktur is only used by mathematicians for vector and matrix
variables. With the currently used typefaces the replacement characters
for ß are ss. Note that all german special characters have replacements
(ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue and ß=ss). But i don't think these replacements should
be part of the Ada language.
Regards
Martin
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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 ` Martin Krischik [this message]
2011-10-12 12:34 ` sharp ß and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS (better not) Georg Bauhaus
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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