Fraktur - Fraktur in Unicode

Fraktur in Unicode

In Unicode, Fraktur is considered a font of the Latin script, and is not encoded separately. The additional ligatures that are required for Fraktur fonts will not be encoded in Unicode. Instead, Unicode proposes to deal with these ligatures using smart-font technologies such as OpenType, AAT or Graphite. There are many Fraktur fonts that do not use smart-font technologies but use their own legacy encoding instead that is not compliant with Unicode.

There are Fraktur symbols in the Unicode blocks of mathematical alphanumeric symbols and letterlike symbols. However, these are meant to be used only in mathematics. Therefore, letters such as ä, ö, ü, and ß, which are not used in mathematics, are excluded.

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