[Towaway69]

Isn't uppercase for ß just ß - i.e. it's its own uppercase character?

[bratwurst3000]

there shouldn’t be an uppercase version of ß because there is no word in the german language that uses it as the first letter. the german language didnt think of allcaps. please correct me if I am wrong. If written in uppercase it should be converted to SZ or the new uppercase ß…. which my iphone doesn’t have… and converting anything to uppercase SS isn’t something germany wants …

[account42]

> there shouldn’t be an uppercase version of ß because there is no word in the german language that uses it as the first letter. the german language didnt think of allcaps.

Allcaps (and smallcaps) has always existed in signage everywhere. Before the computing age, letters where just arbitrary metal stamps -- and just whatever you could draw before that. Historically, language was not as standardized as it is today.

[Towaway69]

I don’t think that Germany wants a capital ß or the German language requires one rather technology needs one to dot the eyes and cross the tees.

[account42]

Not generally no, but some applications used it that way because of ambiguity of upppercasing ß to SS - which is why ẞ was added.

[Towaway69]

On the other hand, the German language has existed for several hundred years without having a capital ß but now it needs one?

True capitalisation has always existed but even that didn’t seem to have required a capital ß - why now?