Editing SS (section)

=== Other uses ===
[[File:Kirche Oßling AB 2011 14.JPG|thumb|left|Use of ß (blackletter 'ſz') in [[Sorbian languages|Sorbian]]: ''wyßokoſcʒ́i'' ("highest", now spelled ''wysokosći''). Text of [[Luke 2]]:14, in a church in [[Oßling]].]]
[[File:BibliaWujka.PNG|thumb|Use of ß in [[Polish language|Polish]], in 1599 ''[[Jakub Wujek Bible]]'', in the word ''náßéy'', which means ''our'', and would be spelled ''naszej'' in modern orthography]]

Occasionally, {{angbr|ß}} has been used in unusual ways:
* As the Greek lowercase {{angbr|β}} ([[beta (letter)|beta]]). The original IBM PC [[Code page 437|CP437]] contains a glyph that minimizes their differences placed between {{angbr|α}} (alpha) and {{angbr|γ}} (gamma) but named "Sharp s Small".<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP00437.txt
 |title=Code Page (CPGID): 00437
 |date=1984
 |website=IBM software FTP server
 |publisher=IBM
 |access-date=11 April 2021
 }}</ref> Substitution was also done using other character sets such as [[ISO/IEC 8859-1]] even though they contain no other Greek letters. The lowercase eszett has also been misused as {{angbr|β}} in scientific writing and vice versa.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Silva |first=Jaime A. Teixeira da |date=2021-04-05 |title=Confusing German Eszett (ẞ; ß) with Greek beta (β) in Biomedical Writing |url=https://www.csescienceeditor.org/article/confusing-german-eszett-%C3%9F-s-with-greek-beta-%CE%B2-in-biomedical-writing/ |journal=Science Editor |language=en-US |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=23–24 |doi=10.36591/SE-D-4401-23}}</ref>
* In Prussian [[Lithuanian language|Lithuanian]], as in the first book published in Lithuanian, [[Martynas Mažvydas]]' ''[[Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas|Simple Words of Catechism]]'',<ref>{{cite book
 |last=Zinkevičius
 |first=Zigmas
 |date=1996
 |title=The History of the Lithuanian Language
 |location=Vilnius
 |publisher=Science and Encyclopedia Publishers
 |page= 230-236
 |isbn=9785420013632
}}</ref> as well as in [[Sorbian languages|Sorbian]] (see example on the left).
* For [[sadhe]] in [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]] glosses, in place of the standard {{angbr|[[ṣ]]}}, when that character is unavailable due to limitations of [[HTML]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www-etcsl.orient.ox.ac.uk/
 |title=ETCSL display conventions
 |website=The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
 |last1=Black
 |first1=J.A.
 |last2=Cunningham
 |first2=G.
 |last3=Fluckiger-Hawker
 |first3=E.
 |last4=Robson
 |first4=E.
 |last5=Zólyomi
 |first5=G.
 |year=1998–2021
 |publisher=Oxford University
 |access-date=11 April 2021
 }}</ref>
* The letter appeared in the alphabet made by [[Jan Kochanowski]] for the [[Polish language]], that was used from the 16th until the 18th century. It represented the [[voiceless postalveolar fricative]] ({{IPA|[ʃ]}}) sound.<ref name=p1>{{cite web|url=https://www.2plus3d.pl/artykuly/skad-sie-wziely-znaki-diakrytyczne|website=2plus3d.pl|title=Skąd się wzięły znaki diakrytyczne?|language=pl|access-date=2021-08-29|archive-date=2021-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421114922/https://www.2plus3d.pl/artykuly/skad-sie-wziely-znaki-diakrytyczne|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=p2>{{cite web|url=https://idb.neon24.pl/post/106082,bon-ton-e-a-aby-pismo-bylo-polskie|website=idb.neon24.pl|title=Bon ton Ę-Ą. Aby pismo było polskie.|date=5 August 2023 |language=pl}}</ref> It was for example used in the ''[[Jakub Wujek Bible]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://bibliepolskie.pl/przeklady.php?tid=4|website=bibliepolskie.pl|language=pl|title=Tłumaczenia ksiąg biblijnych na język polski}}</ref>
* Some authors have used it in German at the beginning of words to transcribe the voiceless s of certain accents.<ref>For example ''Ssein, ja ßein soll es ßie, ßie, ßie!'' in {{cite work|first1=Karl|last1=May|title=Der Weg zum Glück|date=1886–1888|url=https://www.projekt-gutenberg.org/may/wegglue1/chap004.html}}</ref>