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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by holri on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:17AM (#14693689)
A language should not be optimized for easy keyboard typing. The power of German comes through it's richness and beauty of expression, including ß. Downgrading this for easy typing would be the wrong direction.
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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 @03:39AM (#14694222)
A language should be optimized for what its speakers want it to be optimized. Of late, this has always been easy keyboard typing.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by pluma on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:38AM (#14694449)
It's trivial to support ẞ in smartphone virtual keyboards. Physical keyboards may follow.
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by greglindahl on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:39AM (#14693774)
Humans downgrade for easy typing all of the time. It's a nightmare for search engines.
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