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Never learned Spanish, so I did not know this! But it makes sense, just like in German: ß is ss, ä is ae, ö is oe, and ü is ue.
by starmandx 1y ago
Never learned Spanish, so I did not know this! But it makes sense, just like in German: ß is ss, ä is ae, ö is oe, and ü is ue.
- naikrovek 1y agoI can’t tell if that’s lazy or if using a new character instead of two unadorned vowels is inventive. Like all things I don’t understand, I suspect fashion was heavily involved when the decision was made.
- weinzierl 1y agoExactly and ä is never just a, ö never just o and ü never just u. Words like "Uber" just feel wrong from a German perspective. Also, ß is ss and since words don't start with Ss there is no need for an uppercase ß. When whole words are capitalized ß turns into SS. Of course there is a little edge case where capitalization isn't reversible. For example, is the capitalized version of the name MASSMANN to be converted to Maßmann or Massmann? That is in my opinion the only reason the uppercase ß was added to Unicode. To resolve this ambiguity. It has no place in proper German typography.