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C.4 German Sharp S
The German Sharp S or Eszett does not have an uppercase equivalent.
Instead when `
ß
' is converted to `
SS
'.  The conversion of
`
ß
' to `
SS
' requires a special rule, and increases the
length of a word, thus disallowing inplace case conversion.
Furthermore, my general rule of converting all words to lowercase before
looking them up in the dictionary won't work because the conversion of
`
SS
' to lowercase is ambiguous; it can be `
ss
' or
`
ß
'.  I do plan on dealing with this eventually.
