On 4 July 2017 at 00:49, Werner LEMBERG via Unicode <unicode_at_unicode.org>
wrote:
>
> > No, the hyphenation oddity involving the addition of letters with
> > hyphenation (or, to be more precise, to suppress letters in
> > unhyphenated words) never affected the letter s.
>
> I'm not sure that this is really true. As far as I know, `sss' in
> Swiss German was handled similar to other triplet consonants before
> the 1996 spelling reform. In other words, you would have written
>
> Abschlussatz (`closing sentence')
>
> instead of
>
> Abschlusssatz ,
>
> and which would have been hyphenated as
>
> Abschluss-satz
>
This is still the case for Swedish though. I studied German before 1996,
and I was under the impression that the rules in this case wad identical
for Swedish and German. What do the rules say now?
Regards,
Elias
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