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by publysher 2286 days ago
And some more precision: this is about the uppercase Eszett. The lowercase variant has existed for ages, and before 2017 was officially uppercased into SS or SZ.
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It still is officially capitalized to SS under normal circumstances; capital ẞ is an allowed alternative: "Bei Schreibung mit Großbuchstaben schreibt man SS. Daneben ist auch die Verwendung des Großbuchstabens ẞ möglich." (Deutsche Rechtschreibung § 25 E 3)

SZ hasn't officially been an option at least since 1996.