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john61
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The capital sharp S in now part of the official Ge...
A language should not be optimized for easy keyboard typing. The power of German comes through it's richness and beauty of expression, including ß. Downgrading this for easy typing would be the wrong direction.
int_19h
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A language should be optimized for what its speakers want it to be optimized. Of late, this has always been easy keyboard typing.
pluma
on July 4, 2017
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It's trivial to support ẞ in smartphone virtual keyboards. Physical keyboards may follow.
wumpus
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Humans downgrade for easy typing all of the time. It's a nightmare for search engines.
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