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account42 on Oct 9, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: A popular but wrong way to convert a string to upp...

Not generally no, but some applications used it that way because of ambiguity of upppercasing ß to SS - which is why ẞ was added.

Towaway69 on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

On the other hand, the German language has existed for several hundred years without having a capital ß but now it needs one?

True capitalisation has always existed but even that didn’t seem to have required a capital ß - why now?

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