Comment by LudwigNagasena

Comment by LudwigNagasena 12 hours ago

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They switched from Arabic script to Latin script. They literally did latinize Turkish, but they ditched the convention of 1 to 1 correspondence between lowercase and uppercase letters that is invariant across all languages that use Latin script except for German script, Turkish script and its offspring Azerbaijani script.

cachius 3 hours ago

> correspondence between lowercase and uppercase [not in] German script

Where is it broken in German script? Do you mean small ß and capital ẞ?

  • LudwigNagasena 3 hours ago

    Yes, ẞ is an optional variant of ß, which is traditionally capitalized as SS.