S-comma Totally Explained

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S-comma is a letter which is part of the Romanian alphabet, used to represent the Romanian language sound /ʃ/, the voiceless postalveolar fricative (like sh in shoe).
This letter however wasn't part of the early Unicode versions, which is why Ş (S-cedilla) is often used in digital texts in Romanian. S-comma was introduced only in Unicode 3.0 at the request of the Romanian national standardization body, but most computers today still don't have fonts compatible with it (computers with Microsoft operating systems older than Windows XP don't have compatible fonts). That is why almost all Romanian texts still use S-cedilla (or even S), despite the recommendation to migrate from cedilla to comma.
The letter was proposed in the Buda Lexicon, a book published in 1825, which included two texts by Petru Maior, Orthographia romana sive latino-valachica una cum clavi and Dialogu pentru inceputul linbei române, introducing ș for /ʃ/ and ț for /ts/.

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