UPPERCASE - Special Cases

Special Cases

  • The German letter ß primarily exists only in lowercase and is capitalised as "SS" (but see Capital ß).
  • The Greek letter Σ has two different lowercase forms: "ς" in word-final position and "σ" elsewhere. In a similar manner, the Latin letter S used to have two different lowercase forms: "s" in word-final position and "ſ" elsewhere. The latter form, called the long s, fell out of general use before the middle of the 19th century.
  • The Cyrillic letter Ӏ usually has only a capital form, which is also used in lowercase text.
  • Unlike most Latin-script languages that use uppercase "I" and lowercase "i", Turkish has dotted and dotless I independent of case.

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