Long story short: it's Abschlusssatz now (and Rollladen, etc.) One of the
criteria of the reform was to normalise hyphenation. This has gone so far
as to hyphenate Bä-cker, with the additional criterion of keeping the c
inside its group.

2017-11-09 9:47 GMT+01:00 Elias Mårtenson via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org>:

> On 4 July 2017 at 00:49, Werner LEMBERG via Unicode <unicode@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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