> Weirdly, ß is pronounced "s" "z", written as a ligature of s & z, but when unavailable, is replaced in Latin text with "ss". Not quite: ß is nearly always a

> Weirdly, ß is pronounced "s" "z", written as a ligature of s & z, but when unavailable, is replaced in Latin text with "ss". Not quite: ß is nearly always a lowercase-only letter, and it is capitalized to SS even in German text, where they have all the German letters. A capital ẞ exists but is vanishingly rare: https://www.thelocal.de/20170711/after-a-century-of-dispute-the-german-alphabet-just-got-a-new-character https://www.thelocal.de/20170711/after-a-century-of-dispute-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F Example of capital ẞ from 1957 in German text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eszett_Leipziger_Duden_1957.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eszett_Leipziger_Duden_19...