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 Sütterlinschrift.

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 “Gothic” 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:

• capital: 𝔄𝔅ℭ𝔇𝔈𝔉𝔊ℌℑ𝔍𝔎𝔏𝔐𝔑𝔒𝔓𝔔ℜ𝔖𝔗𝔘𝔙𝔚𝔛𝔜ℨ

• tiny: 𝔞𝔟𝔠𝔡𝔢𝔣𝔤𝔥𝔦𝔧𝔨𝔩𝔪𝔫𝔬𝔭𝔮𝔯𝔰𝔱𝔲𝔳𝔴𝔵𝔶𝔷

OCR in Unicode for Fraktur

There exists a OCR able to publish the recognized text coded in Unicode with possiblilté 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 ;
• Sütterlinschrift .