In Germany's German "ss" and "ß" are two different things, ß is its own letter and its transliteration is "ss" or "sz". But it really is its own thing and is no

In Germany's German "ss" and "ß" are two different things, ß is its own letter and its transliteration is "ss" or "sz". But it really is its own thing and is not equivalent to "ss". In the past "SS" was the capitalized version of "ß", but that's not officially the case anymore, you now have a capitalized ẞ [0], even if it isn't used in practice (or if it is, really not often). It's not the same for all versions of German though. For example in Swiss German ß is not used and is replaced by "ss". I do not know about Austrian German but I would not be surprised if they have some specificities around the letter ß. In short: it's complicated :) [0]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F