From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,8ea33c39efc56ac3 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: =?utf-8?Q?sharp_=C3=9F_and_ss_in_Ada_keywor?= =?utf-8?Q?ds_like_ACCESS_=28better_not=29?= References: <4e931db5$0$6541$9b4e6d93@newsspool4.arcor-online.net> <1f9a5099-f5f5-49a8-8773-b7eaca771427@s5g2000pra.googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:26:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Martin Krischik" Organization: Martin Krischik, Softwareentwicklung Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.51 (MacIntel) NNTP-Posting-Host: 95.174.232.11 X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=0APCUoVj Am 10.10.2011, 18:46 Uhr, schrieb Adam Beneschan : > 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 -- Martin Krischik mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net https://sourceforge.net/users/krischik