On 4 July 2017 at 00:49, Werner LEMBERG via Unicode <unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> > > No, the hyphenation oddity involving the addition of letters with > > hyphenation (or, to be more precise, to suppress letters in > > unhyphenated words) never affected the letter s. > > I'm not sure that this is really true. As far as I know, `sss' in > Swiss German was handled similar to other triplet consonants before > the 1996 spelling reform. In other words, you would have written > > Abschlussatz (`closing sentence') > > instead of > > Abschlusssatz , > > and which would have been hyphenated as > > Abschluss-satz > This is still the case for Swedish though. I studied German before 1996, and I was under the impression that the rules in this case wad identical for Swedish and German. What do the rules say now? Regards, Elias
