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For anyone using an Apple OS (macOS, iOS), you can get this character on a US keyboard (with US keymap) by pressing and holding "S" (shift-s): a mini-menu will

For anyone using an Apple OS (macOS, iOS), you can get this character on a US keyboard (with US keymap) by pressing and holding "S" (shift-s): a mini-menu will pop-up, and "Ś" will be one of two options. For lower-case "ś", the pop-up mini-menu will have three options, the first being "ß".

verandaguy 3y ago
For readers unfamiliar with German: ß is the German sharp S. It’s pronounced like a normal English “s” in situations where the letter “s” may be pronounced closer to the English letter “z.” For example: Strase -> shtrazeh Straße -> shtrasseh
- syncsynchalt 3y ago
  For anyone who has trouble sight-reading a ß as a beta, it may help to know the ß glyph shape is formed as a ligature of two letters: one now-archaic "long s" (ſ), followed by a "z". Americans will know the "long s" from documents such as the US constitution (every child jokes about the "Congrefs" misspelling). The name of the character (eszett) means "sz" but actually represents "ss" for tortured historic reasons that I can't recall, but which I think [1] tries to explain. More typographic trivia: The uppercase transform of "ß" is "SS", which causes bugs in code that assumes case changes won't change the character count. The language council fought for decades against recognizing an uppercase ß but eventually gave in if only to have the ability to computer-encode erroneous capitalizations, and it's been in Unicode for over a decade now: ẞ [1] https://thelanguagecloset.com/2022/11/05/the-story-of-eszett-s/ https://thelanguagecloset.com/2022/11/05/the-story-of-eszett...
JadeNB 3y ago
There's also a character viewer that you can display under the Input menu in the menu bar; and there's a keyboard viewer that lets you discover unexpected, say, SHIFT-OPTION-blah key combinations that will produce those characters at a stroke.

verandaguy 3y ago

For readers unfamiliar with German: ß is the German sharp S. It’s pronounced like a normal English “s” in situations where the letter “s” may be pronounced closer to the English letter “z.” For example: Strase -> shtrazeh Straße -> shtrasseh

syncsynchalt 3y ago
For anyone who has trouble sight-reading a ß as a beta, it may help to know the ß glyph shape is formed as a ligature of two letters: one now-archaic "long s" (ſ), followed by a "z". Americans will know the "long s" from documents such as the US constitution (every child jokes about the "Congrefs" misspelling). The name of the character (eszett) means "sz" but actually represents "ss" for tortured historic reasons that I can't recall, but which I think [1] tries to explain. More typographic trivia: The uppercase transform of "ß" is "SS", which causes bugs in code that assumes case changes won't change the character count. The language council fought for decades against recognizing an uppercase ß but eventually gave in if only to have the ability to computer-encode erroneous capitalizations, and it's been in Unicode for over a decade now: ẞ [1] https://thelanguagecloset.com/2022/11/05/the-story-of-eszett-s/ https://thelanguagecloset.com/2022/11/05/the-story-of-eszett...

JadeNB 3y ago

There's also a character viewer that you can display under the Input menu in the menu bar; and there's a keyboard viewer that lets you discover unexpected, say, SHIFT-OPTION-blah key combinations that will produce those characters at a stroke.