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sir_eliah • today at 1:26 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

I'm glad you asked! Obviously you have to check the code table and you can see that's a Greek beta, not German Eszett. \s

  In [1]: ord("β")
  Out[1]: 946

  In [2]: ord("ß")
  Out[2]: 223

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dekhn • today at 1:52 PM

I come to Hacker News for exactly this. Excellent nerdsnipe.

pwdisswordfishq • today at 1:43 PM

As if you could not tell by the shape of the glyph.

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aeve890 • today at 1:38 PM

Come on now. I would swear both characters are the same. I didn't know that the German one wasn't a Greek beta.

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