Purpose: collect code or links that apply to specific aspects of German language or culture
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If you need the umlauted and other special characters used in German, here they are:
 Ä \u00C4 Ö \u00D6 Ü \u00DC ä \u00E4 ö \u00F6 ü \u00FC ß \u00DF

Also note that "ß" (historically a ligature of "long-s" and "round-s") is [an anomaly in case conversion]:
[[string toupper ß]] should result in the two characters SS, 
but in the other direction it is not decidable whether [[string tolower SS]] 
should result in "ss" or "ß". ([RS]) This is traditionally correct, but the "capital ß" has already been invented and has entered Unicode, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%C3%9F or http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versal-%C3%9F
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'''DIN 66003''' was a German national standard as a variation of ASCII, where the German umlauts, 
sharp s and paragraph sign were put in the ASCII (and today Unicode) positions of ''@ [[ | ]] { \ } ~''. 
Here's a simple converter if you happen to deal with such strings:
 interp alias {} din66003->u {} string map {
    \x40 \xa7 \x5b \xc4 \x5c \xd6 \x5d \xdc \x7b \xe4
    \x7c \xf6 \x7d \xfc \x7e \xdf
 } ;# RS

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[RS] 2005-08-17: [clock] format can return the full month name, but only in English. 
Here's how to "germanize" them:

 % set ms {January February March April May June July August September October November December} 
 % string map {arch ärz ne ni ec ez ry r y i c k} $ms 
 Januar Februar März April Mai Juni Juli August September Oktober November Dezember
For de_AT (Austrian German), add ''anuary änner'' to the map. 
(Tcl 8.5 will have German as well as Austrian localization in [clock]).
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   * '''German plurals''' in (guess!) [Custom curry]
   * [Einfach Tcl], an introduction to Tcl in German
   * [Einfach man Tcl] is the [Endekalogue] in German, with comments by [RS]
   * [Bag of number/time spellers] has one of each in German
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