The capital sharp S in now part of the official German orthography
As a german, I see this as a step in the wrong direction.<p>The sharp S is a PITA to begin with, so I'd rather abolish it completely.<p>Now there's a whole bunch of complications coming from this - how do I type this? To type lowercase "ß", I press the key above "p" (in the same position as with qwerty) and "ü" (to the right of it), which will do "?" when pressed together with shift. So do we move "?" somewhere else?<p>QWERTZ is already bad for e.g. programming with all its punctuation (typing "]" means holding altgr and pressing 9), so that would make it even worse.<p>Personally I'd rather use composing since that would mean I could continue ignoring "ß" like I already do (I use "ss" instead), only now I'll ignore both forms.<p>Note also that a capital "ß" is barely useful to begin with - no word begins with it, so the only reason to use it is to write a word in ALL CAPS.