On 2006-04-10 23:02:09, Chris Croughton wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:29:05 +0200, Stephan Mann
> <groups@stephan-mann.de> wrote:
> I can't do the sharp-S character on this terminal.
If you are using an appropriate charset (e.g. Extended ASCII), this should
be Sign 225. On Windows, this works by holding ALT pressed and enter 225
on the keypad.
If this doesn't work, you could use 'sz' since this is another name for
this letter. It's not very common, but german-speaking people should get
it, if they think about it.
cases, especially in Usenet or mails. But strictly speaking, it's
incorrect.
> I had the impression
> that the character is now being dropped in favour of the 'ss' form since
> the recent reforms?
They attempted to do so -- and failed miserably. It's a huge chaos and
nobody knows how to write correctly anymore. Not even the newspapers or
the so-called experts. One of the few things which has not been changed
until now is that in names and after long vowels there (still) needs to be
> I think I'm going to start using Strasssenbauobjekte in English, since
> we don't have a word for it (English doesn't so much borrow words from
> other languages, it chases them down alleys and mugs them for the
> words!) <g>.
Since german uses so many english words, you may have a few back in return
;)
stephan
PS: I've just realized that I'm very uncomfortable with writing in
english. I'm looking forward to practice this here.
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