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by gumby 1432 days ago
That’s a good theory, especially as section 3.1 of that ICAO document explicitly permits the use of ß.

Bringing the thread back to the topic of this comment section: the ICAO document also calls the digits 0123456789 “Arabic” even though their shapes are closer to the original Hindi (Devanagari) forms than to actual Arabic digits — another “Hindi/Turkey” situation