Letter Case - Special Cases

Special Cases

  • The German letter ß exists only in lowercase (but see Capital ß), and is capitalized as "SS".
  • The Greek letter Σ has two different lowercase forms: "ς" in word-final position and "σ" elsewhere.
  • 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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