LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SHARP S officially recognized

[Michael Everson via Unicode]

On 1 Jul 2017, at 10:34, Werner LEMBERG via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> It's even more complicated.  Take for example the word `Straße'
> (street), which gets capitalized as `STRASSE’.

Or as STRAẞE. 

> In Germany and Austria this word gets hyphenated as `STRA-SSE' (since hyphenation is not
> influenced by the ß→SS substitution).  However, in Switzerland it gets
> hyphenated as `STRAS-SE', since Swiss German doesn't use ß; instead,
> `ss' gets treated as a normal double consonant.

It would be hyphenated STRA-ẞE in any case.

Michael Everson