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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by pluma on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:05AM (#14694317)
As a German and Unicode nerd, I love this. It'll take forever to be standardized in keyboard layouts and to be fully supported in mainstream fonts but I love that this makes it officially blessed and gives it leverage when convincing type foundries and standard bodies to support it.

DON'T PANIC. You'll be fine to use "SS" when shouting at people online for the foreseeable future. But those of us who care about typography can now use the proper capitalization and maybe 5-10 years from now keyboard layouts will support this like they added support for the Euro symbol (although that was a bit easier).

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by Loic on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @08:37AM (#14695480)
As a French living in Germany I love it too. Restricting the wonderful differences between languages just because of the artificial "keyboard entry issue" is a lowest common denominator approach which has no sense at all.

Can you imagine restricting Chinese to just the ideograms you can type on a keyboard?

So, thank you for all the ß in German, the ø in Norwegian, the œ in French and all these small variations which are making my lectures a bit more tasty.

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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or... by pluma on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:09PM (#14697983)
FWIW the French ç is a pain to type on a German keyboard too (hooray for compose-comma-c on Linux) but I like these quirks of our languages that all share a variation of the same alphabet but took it in different directions.
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