Re: Ligatures

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> >There's no capital version of "ß", you use "SS" (thus breaking
>> >bijectivity of upper- and lowercase).
>> 
>> Actually, uppercase ẞ was accepted into the official German
>> spelling in 2017:
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%E1%BA%9E (cf. last line of
>> Section "History").
> 
> Yes, Officially. Nearly nobody uses it. If I had to bet, I'd expect
> 'ß' to disappear and be replaced by 'ss', as the Swiss do before
> uppercase ß has a chance :-)

Well, if your family name is 'Dreßen', you don't want to see your name
written as 'DRESSEN' in your passport (which usually requires
uppercase for family names): All German speakers would pronounce the
first 'e' as a short vowel instead of the correct long one.  Exactly
for this situation – and for hardly anything else – you should write
'DREẞEN'.


    Werner