> On 29 May 2018, at 07:30, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> > wrote: > > On 5/28/2018 6:30 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote: >>> Unifying these would make a real mess of lower casing! >>> >> German has a special sign ß for "ss", without upper capital version. >> >> > You may want to retract the second part of that sentence. > > An uppercase exists and it has formally been ruled as acceptable way to write > this letter (mostly an issue for ALL CAPS as ß does not occur in word-initial > position). > A./
Duden used one in 1957, but stated in 1984 that there is no uppercase version [1]. So it would be interesting with a reference to an official version. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß
