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Roboto is still missing the german capital ẞ (Eszett) character #7821

Open jonas1015119 opened 4 weeks ago

jonas1015119 commented 4 weeks ago

compare this issue from 2018 https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto/issues/302

Its been a unicode character since 2008 and part of official german orthography since 2017 (see), I cant think of any other major latin script that would have such a common character missing. Made exponentially worse by Roboto being the default font of Youtube, where capital letters in video titles are very common. It currently looks like this: image

For the typographers, here's an entire design guide on how exactly a capital ẞ shoud look like: http://cinga.ch/eszett/