Re: Uppercase ß

[Hans Åberg via Unicode]

> On 29 May 2018, at 07:30, Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:
> 
> On 5/28/2018 6:30 AM, Hans Åberg via Unicode wrote:
>>> Unifying these would make a real mess of lower casing!
>>> 
>> German has a special sign ß for "ss", without upper capital version.
>> 
>> 
> You may want to retract the second part of that sentence.
> 
> An uppercase exists and it has formally been ruled as acceptable way to write this letter (mostly an issue for ALL CAPS as ß does not occur in word-initial position). 
> A./

Duden used one in 1957, but stated in 1984 that there is no uppercase version [1]. So it would be interesting with a reference to an official version.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß