UTF-8 (c3, 9f) ß name: LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S | |
old name: | |
Adobe glyph name: germandbls | |
mnemonic name(s): <ss> | |
HTML 4 mnemonic name:ß | |
category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase) | |
combining: 0 | |
comment: German | |
Note: ß is unique to the German language in Germany and Austria, Swiss German uses ss. The recent spelling reform in Germany also mandated ss in several contexts -- ß is retained at the end of the stem after a long vowel or diphthong. ß is not treated as a ligature (s+z). Also called eszet or sharp s. | |
found in charsets: CP863 (E1); CP775 (E1); 8859-15 (DF); CP1250 (DF); 8859-3 (DF); CENTEURO (A7); CP1258 (DF); 8859-10 (DF); 8859-9 (DF); ROMAN (A7); CP862 (E1); 8859-2 (DF); CP857 (E1); CP1252 (DF); CP437 (E1); CP860 (E1); 8859-4 (DF); CP1122 (59); CP1254 (DF); SAMI_MAC (A7); CP852 (E1); CP865 (E1); CP861 (E1); 8859-13 (DF); CP850 (E1); CP1257 (DF); 8859-1 (DF); CP1116 (E1); SAMI_WIN (DF); 8859-14 (DF); 8859-16 (DF); VENTURA_INT (D9); | |
found in languages: lb [Luxembourgian]; de [German]; | |
used in romanization of: |