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Support for German capitalized Eszett

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Hi,

the German eszett ß recently got a capitzlied version: which is currently not supported in Roboto, so when you have the text: “Maßlech” and use for example CSS to make this upper case via text-transform: uppercase, the result is: MASSBLECH.

Any idea if will be supported in the near future?

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  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments:7 (2 by maintainers)

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moyogocommented, Dec 4, 2017

@tzfrs two things:

  1. Google Fonts subsets fonts, so you might have to select a different subset to view the characters you want: <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto&amp;subset=latin-ext" rel="stylesheet"> may contain . Alternatively you can use the full font that is in this repository.

  2. text-transform: uppercase changes ß into two S regardless of the font. Since the uppercase is recent, text-transform behave as it use to before that character was encoded or before it’s use became official in German.

@davelab6 Which Google Fonts subset contains ?

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kobelobstercommented, Dec 10, 2017

@fitojb closed it.

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