German Sharp S - GNU Aspell 0.60.6.1
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### C.4 German Sharp S

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.