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mostlylurkstoday at 3:04 AM1 replyview on HN

> Ÿ seems to not be used by any language.

Surely those aforementioned non-initial cases would sometimes find themselves in a piece of all-uppercase text? You'd have found such things in print media even before the advent of computers.


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NegativeLatencytoday at 3:15 AM

Not everything is upper/lower convertible like ß for example (as far as I know)

At least until 2017, I imagine there are others though.

> In 2017, the Council for German Orthography officially adopted a capital form ⟨ẞ⟩ as an acceptable variant, ending a long debate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F