There are 7 German special characters:

äÄöÖüÜß

If you can't interpret the line before:
a with two dots over it - it can also be written by ae (not very beautiful)
A with two dots over it - it can also be written by Ae (not very beautiful)
o with two dots over it - it can also be written by oe (not very beautiful)
O with two dots over it - it can also be written by Oe (not very beautiful)
u with two dots over it - it can also be written by ue (not very beautiful)
U with two dots over it - it can also be written by Ue (not very beautiful)
Sharp "s" a character similar, but not exact like a B - it can also be
written by ss sometimes sz (not very beautiful)
there is only a small-letter and no capital-letter sharp "s"

Since 1. August 1998 there is a new German orthography - some of the sharp s
characters have been replaced by ss, but unfortunately the chance to kill
all
special characters has been missed.

Ralph


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Von: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Gesendet am: Montag, 14. Februar 2000 23:07
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Betreff: OT: a question about German

Because of popular requests, we're putting the European diacriticals into
QCTerm (actually, we'd always planned on doing this).

The question I have regards the "beta"-looking character that's used in the
German language for words like "strasse". I understand that it is a
small-letter sharp "s".  My question is: Is there a capital-letter
equivalent?

The question is necessary simply because we want to properly upshift it, if
someone should attempt to do that (or puts the terminal in all-caps mode).

Thanks,

Wirt ('"regardless of how his name looks, doesn't speak a word of German")
Atmar