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Use of ß (blackletter 'ſz') in Sorbian: wyßokoſcʒ́i ("highest", now spelled wysokosći). Text of Luke 2:14, in a church in Oßling. Use of ß in Polish, in 1599 Jakub Wujek Bible, in the word náßéy, which means our, and would be spelled naszej in modern orthography. Occasionally, ß has been used in unusual ways:
The present-day German letter ß (German: Eszett or scharfes s; also used in Low German and historical Upper Sorbian orthographies) is generally considered to have originated in a ligature of ſz (which is supported by the fact that the second part of the ß grapheme usually resembles a Fraktur z: , hence ſ ; see ß for details), although in ...
This page is for collecting data on the use of Umlaut and ß in English language publications, with the hope of finally deciding how to treat the question at Wikipedia. There have been several dead-end discussions on the topic so far.
As the ß derives from a ligature of lower-case letters, it is itself exclusively lower-case. The proper transcription when it cannot be used, or when writing a word in all capital letters, is ss or SS. This transcription can give rise to ambiguities, albeit rarely; one such case is in Maßen (in moderation) vs. in Massen (en masse).
The section sign (§) is a typographical character for referencing individually numbered sections of a document; it is frequently used when citing sections of a legal code. [1]
In addition to that, texts written before the 1996 spelling reform also use ß at the ends of words and before consonants, e.g. naß 'wet' and mußte 'had to' (after the reform spelled nass and musste), so vowel length in these positions could not be detected by the ß , cf. Maß 'measure' and fußte 'was based' (both unaffected by the reform).
Part of the keyboard is adapted to include umlauted vowels (ä, ö, ü) and the sharp s (ß). (Some newer types of German keyboards offer the fixed assignment Alt+++H → ẞ for its capitalized version.) Some of special key inscriptions are changed to a graphical symbol (e.g. ⇪ Caps Lock is an upward arrow, ← Backspace a leftward arrow).
distinct letters: õ, ä, ö and ü; but never ß or å; similar to Finnish, except: letter y is not used, except in loanwords (ü is the corresponding vowel) letters b and g (without preceding n) are found outside of loanwords; occasional use of š and ž, mainly in loanwords (plus combination tš)