> Germany relatively adopted an uppercase ß (and got it into Unicode) The parenthetical part is true. It was an uphill battle, but not because of the consortiu

> Germany relatively adopted an uppercase ß (and got it into Unicode) The parenthetical part is true. It was an uphill battle, but not because of the consortium, but because of what the tropes wiki would describe as executive meddling. The adoption is not recent, but about 110 years old. You have the wrong idea because of sloppy journalism. > I’ve never seen it in the wild I see it all the time. Maybe you are undercounting. Pay attention to non-standard letterforms on hand-written signs, and you also have to include print media where someone substituted lower-case ß in absence of a glyph in a font. This is a typographic mistake, but the intent is clear.