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They misspelled Käsekuchen.
Maybe they just ran out of dots.
Luckily there is a rule for that. You just add an "e". Germans will know when they read Kaese that it means Käse(cheese).
ä=ae ö=oe ü=ue
And bonus ß=ss
proves that they are from new yörk
I don't remember if German rules are the same as French, but in French you don't need to include accents when something is written in capital letters.
You need to in German because Umlaute are not accents but different characters.
They not only sound different, the words also mean different things.
schon is already
schön is pretty
There is the same issue in French that the lack of accent can change the meaning, so the French Academy does recommend putting accents on capitals. https://www.academie-francaise.fr/questions-de-langue#5_strong-em-accentuation-des-majuscules-em-strong
Newspaper title "UN INTERNE TUE":
Example from https://www.projet-voltaire.fr/ressources/accent-majuscules-capitales/
I guess that's what I get for learning French during the age of typewriters (my formal French education ended in 1981 and I've only spoken --never written-- it since then).
You need to include them in German. We now even have a capital ß: ẞ
ẞased
SSased?
L'Académie Française disagrees. https://www.academie-francaise.fr/questions-de-langue#5_strong-em-accentuation-des-majuscules-em-strong
You absolutely do have to include accents when something is in capital letters in French. The fact that antique typing machines couldn't do it notwithstanding. It's a common and irritating misconception (also Windows makes it difficult to do so because it's shit, and Azerty is shit, but it's not a problem in other systems).