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Originally Posted by skreutzer
the word "dass" would be wrong according to latest blackletter rules, the correct version would be "daſs". Note in "Ueberzeugung" that the combination "Ue" was used if the font of the typesetter hadn't a capital Umlaut "Ü", so in current German usage you might want to replace it with "Überzeugung", while "Ue" is still recognized as "Ue" by German readers, mostly because "Ue" is used as replacement for "Ü" in plain ASCII texts. The word "zür" should usually be "zur", there's some strange language use going on there, but it might have been common at the time or environment of Heine.
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this "original" edition shows that indeed "dass" was "daſs" (or "daß") and "zür" was "zur". "Ue" was still "Ue".