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Originally Posted by Jellby
I've made a book which had an excerpt in German with a long-s and fraktur font, I kept both.
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That was right, in the German fraktur font there have been - aditionally to the ß - two different characters for the letter "s".
The normal character was this one:
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denn durch ſie geſcheh'n?
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the other
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Großes begegnen, was kann Großes
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was only used at the end of a word (that's why it's called end-s in German). As we have many compounded words this helped greatly as it showed where the first part of a word ended. And it made the text more precise. For instance, Wachstube can be Wach-Stube or Wachs-Tube, with a fraktur font the meaning is immediately clear.