Fraktur
The writing Fraktur (in German Frakturschrift ), usually called Gothic script (from which it is resulting but with which, however, it does not merge: Fraktur is a Gothic type of script), is a version of Imprimerie of the Latin alphabet appeared in Germany with the Renaissance at the beginning of the 16th century. It is used until in 1941. Its cursive handwritten version was the Sรผtterlinschrift.
She was opposed to the Antiqua , name given to the Latin letters as traced and printed in the other countries of Western Europe, which correspond roughly speaking to our current letters. After 1941, Germany adopted Antiqua.
Fraktur alphabet in Unicode
The Fraktur writing being regarded as an alternative of the Latin alphabet, the โGothicโ characters are included in Unicode only as mathematical symbols. In particular, the bindings are not available. One cannot thus code a text with the characters which follow, given as an indication:
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capital: ๐๐ โญ๐๐๐๐โโ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐โจ
- tiny: ๐๐๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฃ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ง๐จ๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ท
OCR in Unicode for Fraktur
There exists a OCR able to publish the recognized text coded in Unicode with possibliltรฉ to recognize the Fraktur writing and also on the same page of the Antiqua characters, Hebrews and Greek:
http://bit.dyndns.biz/
Related articles
- Gothic Script;
- S long;
- Eszett ;
- Sรผtterlinschrift .
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