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Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ... by account42 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @09:18AM (#41787669)
Not generally no, but some applications used it that way because of ambiguity of upppercasing ß to SS - which is why ẞ was added.
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Re:A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase ... by Towaway69 on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @05:43PM (#41793004)
On the other hand, the German language has existed for several hundred years without having a capital ß but now it needs one?

True capitalisation has always existed but even that didn’t seem to have required a capital ß - why now?

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