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The German Sharp S or Eszett does not have an uppercase equivalent.
Instead when ß
is converted to SS
. The conversion of
ß
to SS
requires a special rule, and increases the
length of a word, thus disallowing inplace case conversion.
Furthermore, my general rule of converting all words to lowercase before
looking them up in the dictionary won't work because the conversion of
SS
to lowercase is ambiguous; it can be ss
or
ß
. I do plan on dealing with this eventually.