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by ygra 3273 days ago
Actually there was a time where many typefaces actually included a capital sharp s and the letter was in somewhat common use, cf. https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gro%C3%9Fes_%C3%9F, especially the second section. Limited availability of a glyph and no way of representing the letter in any digital text encoding probably meant it fell out of use and was more or less forgotten.