Andre Poenitz wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:15:14PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> Tao Cumplido wrote:
>>> When I try to print the German capital sharp s I get this error:
>>> 'Some characters of your document are probably not representable in the
>>> chosen encoding. Changing the document encoding to utf8 could help.'
>>>
>>> So, I changed the encoding to utf8 and get the following:
>>> 'Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8ẞ not setup for use with LaTeX.'
>> 
>> I don't think that there is any LaTeX package that supports this character 
>> (neither a font that includes it). After all, this was only recently added 
>> to 
>> the unicode standard.
> 
> I am a bit surprised that it is standardized at all. So far I have
> considered any use of "sharp s" in a capitalized word as error...

Well, in some circumstances, it would be quite useful to have a capital
sharp s, e.g. when printing my last name in small caps. But it is
debatable whether a capital sharp s is correct German. At the moment, it
is only standardised in a technical sense. But if it will be common
practice in the next years, it will maybe also make its way into the
DUDEN, who knows...

Regards,
Dominik.-

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