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Re: CONLANG Digest - 18 Mar 2000 to 19 Mar 2000 (#2000-78)

From:BP Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 22, 2000, 16:31
At 13:09 20.3.2000 -0600, Thomas R. Wier wrote:
>. The German boards did, though, >have umlauted tiles for vowels, although I don't seem to remember any >tile for the ess-zett.
That's because ess-zett can't be capitalized. It becomes SS in caps. (Actually it *should* become SZ, with sz as a permissible l-c stand-in. Beats me why not. German Polonophobia, maybe? ;-) /BP "Doubt grows with knowledge" -Goethe