Need help with German blackletter text fragment

[GrannyGrump]

re: BabelFont -- the thing I really like is being able to simply click multiple characters I need to make a pasteable (is that a word???) string, that I can insert in my editor. (instead of click "select", click "copy", etc, etc in character map.)

[Jellby]

Originally Posted by skreutzer

the word "dass" would be wrong according to latest blackletter rules, the correct version would be "daſs". Note in "Ueberzeugung" that the combination "Ue" was used if the font of the typesetter hadn't a capital Umlaut "Ü", so in current German usage you might want to replace it with "Überzeugung", while "Ue" is still recognized as "Ue" by German readers, mostly because "Ue" is used as replacement for "Ü" in plain ASCII texts. The word "zür" should usually be "zur", there's some strange language use going on there, but it might have been common at the time or environment of Heine.

And this "original" edition shows that indeed "dass" was "daſs" (or "daß") and "zür" was "zur". "Ue" was still "Ue".

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Jellby

And this "original" edition shows that indeed "dass" was "daſs" (or "daß") and "zür" was "zur". "Ue" was still "Ue".

"daſs" is indeed the correct spelling according to the 1996 spelling reform, however, in texts published up to 1941 (when blackletter fonts were abolished), only "daß" was used.

I.e., if you're going for an authentic look, "daſs" would be incorrect.

IMHO, it also doesn't make sense to use the 1996 spelling rules with German blackletter texts in general, but some hard-core blackletter fans will probably disagree.