RE: Uppercase variant of U+00DF LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S ( "German sharp s", "ß" )

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"Oliver Christ" <oli@trados.com> writes:

> Otherwise it's like saying "hey guys, here you have an upper-case ß, not sure whether you
> actually need it, but please now change all your computer keyboards, and, sorry, but 8859-1
> doesn't work any more for your language!" ;-)

This has nothing to do with keyboards or 8859-1. Not all the characters needed for German
are on the German keyboard (proper dashes, etc.) and 8859-1 is wholely deficient, given
that there's not proper quotes in 8859-1. A capital ß could be added without changing
any of that.

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