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Subject: Re: sharp =?utf-8?Q?=C3=9F?= and ss in Ada keywords like ACCESS
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:22:34 +0100
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Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:

> The history of the USA harbors an interesting specimen of sharp-s,
> its origin and meaning, as I learned just now.
> It is not from a text written in German, though; rather, it is heading,
> TA DA, the Bill of Rights:
>
> http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_zoom_1.html

I'd have called that 'long s': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
(which mentions "the German double s, ß" as an example of a ligature).