AFAIK, in German there are some specific cases in which you have to use � instead of ss. Needless to say, it was not the same throughout Germandom: in Switzerland, the character is not used. The writing reform happened some years ago changed again things, reducing the number of cases in which � has to be used. Moreover, there is no uppercase form: you have to write SS. In short, a mess :-)
> I assume Germans use it to write German words. Not > to replace double s in non-German names. Yes, but we could have a mixed-language domain name: what about pa�-per-tutti.it ? ciao, .mau.
