Fraktursatz (Advanced) Translator

A tool for a quick converter from plaintext easily typeable on a standard modern keyboard to traditional German Fraktursatz. THIS IS THE ADVANCED VERSION! It'll convert conventional glyphs to more accurate looking glyphs, though a lot of them are quite obscure and not supported by most fonts. If you already have a Fraktur font, I recommend the Basic Converter.

USAGE NOTES:

GENERAL: For a plain/conventional letter, use the degree symbol (°) before the affected letter, for a special/obscure one, use a hashtag (#).

LONG, SHORT, AND SHARP S: Note: I wasn't able to implement all rules regarding what type of s to use. Double check yourself and force characters using # and ° when necessary.

By default, any lowercase s not at the end of a word will be converted to ſ. Force ſ using #s and s by using °s Maissalat -> Maiſſalat (wrong) Mai°ssalat -> Maisſalat (correct)

By default, ß will be broken up to the traditional ſʒ. Type s°z for ſz. Maßstab -> Maſʒſtab (correct) Ma°ßstab -> Maßſtab Mas°zstab -> Maſzſtab

MINOR TYPOGRAPHIC VARIANTS: By default, z and h will be converted to ʒ and ꜧ respectively. zahlen -> ʒaꜧlen °za°hlen -> zahlen

R ROTUNDA: By default, r after b, d, h, o, and p will be converted to ꝛ. R rotunda can be forced anywhere else (Including its capital version!) by using #r. Regular r with °r.

TZ-LIGATURE: By default, Tz and tz will convert to Ꜩ and ꜩ. Use t#z for non-joint tʒ and t°z for regular tz.

OTHER FORCED LIGATURES: The digraphs ch, and ck are traditionally forced ligatures. However, they are not officialy encoded in Unicode, so there are very few fonts who support them - those who do, support MUFI (Medieval Unicode Font Initative). You can type the MUFI characters by using #. IN LAYMAN'S TERMS: ch, and ck are, like tz and ſz, supposed to be connected. While tz and ſz have connected forms, the others do not.

UMLAUTS: By default, capital Umlauts will be replaced by digraphs, and lowercase Umlauts with a combining e above. For capital Umlauts with combining e above, type #.

For u with combining o above, type #uo.