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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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