Helmut Wollmersdorfer

Sorry, forgot where I read it. I only remember, that I tried it in BBEdit and others, but they didn't display LRM or RLM on View -> Text Display -> Show Invisibles. They just ignore them c…

@ClintGoss Some programs can show invisibles. E. g. for the string <space>a<tab>b<tab>c<nl> TextWrangler/BBEdit: LibreOffice: This works on application level. There is no stan…

As far as I can go back in printing history ß was always used as an own letter. Duden 1973 "das heute als ein eigener Buchstabe angesehen wird" (today seen as a own letter). Duden 1943 doe…

@Adam Jagosz > Maße (and voiced ß) Because I speak it voiced. In German s between vocals is ​[⁠z⁠]​ voiced alveolar fricative. Using [z] for ß is still within recognised /s/. I learned to make the…

I cannot prove all orthographies. But hardcoded fi appears in texts in the wild, and e. g. Tesseract OCR outputs it. I agree with you, that using fi is not a good practice, and it will be hard enoug…