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Say a German user’s chosen name is spaß (“fun”). In all uppercase, that name is equivalent to SPASS or perhaps SPASZ and as of last year[0] SPAẞ. [0]: https://
by gbacon 9y ago
Say a German user’s chosen name is spaß (“fun”). In all uppercase, that name is equivalent to SPASS or perhaps SPASZ and as of last year[0] SPAẞ.
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ẞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ẞ
- eCa 9y agoI have never seen ”ß” meaning ”sz” (or anything other than ”ss”), can you point me to a source?
- jwilk 9y agoFrom the Wikipedia article: Designs for an SZ ligature has been part of typesets from the 1910s until the 1950s, but in the opinion of Herrmann (2011), the long-standing alphabetic equivalence of ß with ss and the abolition of the optional capitalization of ß as SZ (abandoned in 1996⁽¹¹⁾) means that this is no longer a valid option that "Germans would want to use on a regular basis". ¹¹ until 1996, it was recommended to render ß as SS in allcaps except when there was ambiguity, in which case it should be rendered as SZ. The common example for such a case was IN MASZEN (in Maßen "in moderate amounts") vs. IN MASSEN (in Massen "in massive amounts"), where the difference between the spelling in ß vs. ss could actually reverse the conveyed meaning. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F contains a concrete example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ABSCHUSZGERAET.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ABSCHUSZGERAET.jpg