The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography

Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by mzs on Monday July 03, 2017 @08:36PM (#14692601)

For us Poles it's a toss-up whether MICHAŁ is interpreted as MICHAL or MICHAK at borders.

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by odiroot on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:25AM (#14694394)

Actually, funnily enough German government agencies properly write Ł on all my papers. I needed to settle for L anyway because banks, telcos etc. have a huge problem with it.

On the other hand in some other countries it ends up being some random crap. Eg.: Micha%b

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by germanier on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:12AM (#14694604)

Interestingly, the German government has defined their own subset of Unicode for use on documents: http://www.bmi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/PERS/Themen/Vorh...

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by int_19h on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @03:40AM (#14694225)

Wait, how does it become K suddenly? I mean, if it's something other than L, shouldn't it then really be W?

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by nicky0 on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:50AM (#14694503)

It looks a bit like A K.

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