David: What you propose is sensible; although I believe that a treatment of ß and SS will differ significantly in width. We're aiming for long- term metrics stability of included coverage between major releases, so while we can update glyph and hinting data it is going to be very hard work to provide a pleasing ß stretched up to the bounding box providing by initially include SS, if it turns out to be needed later.
I cannot predict how the German language will involve within the next decade (but the hints are there in the wording of the rules and the Unicode track being taken) and, if RdR do indeed include a 30th capital letter in the language and, if the Germanic governments ratify such a revision of the orthography and, if then perhaps further, it is taught in schools and children have the requirement to see on-screen all 30 lowercase and all 30 uppercase, _then_ we would not be able to meet that requirement. We would need to break metrics in order to close up the width and break our own published intention of stability. The risk from backing ourselves into this rather awkward corner are quite large and so in preference it might be better to ship a missing entry for the medium-, or long-term at that codepoint (this would allow substitution from other fonts to occur), ensuring that various articles trying to discuss the subject matter do at least display in a sensible fashion: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ß -- Expansion: 'ẞ' LATIN CAPTIAL LETTER SHARP S (U+1E9E) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/650498 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
