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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by pgeorgi on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @01:39AM (#14693772)
"Personally I'd rather use composing"

Then use a keyboard with a compose key: compose-s-s for ß is already typical, set up compose-S-s for the few cases you need ẞ.

Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by pluma on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:43AM (#14694472)
I'm on Ubuntu and have a laptop with a Menu key, so I rebound that to Compose. compose-S-S also works, btw, as does compose-s-s with capslock.