diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 1de4ced5..27a76519 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1784,6 +1784,8 @@ Thomas G
  for fixing i18n characters for the Hungarian texts
  for implementing using nl_langinfo(CODESET) to determine the local codeset to use
  for removing a duplicate ',' from the ca_ES.po file
+ for suggesting to add the 'ß' character to the "allowed characters" in the
+ de_DE.po file
 
 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
  for his help in replacing the get/put_unaligned() macros from asm/unaligned.h with
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index ca59fbf9..1dade685 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5479,3 +5479,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   i18n: $(I18Npot) $(I18Nmo)
   (based on a suggestion by Torsten Kunkel).
 - Removed a duplicate ',' from the ca_ES.po file (thanks to Thomas Günther).
+- Added the 'ß' character to the "allowed charcaters" in the de_DE.po file
+  (suggested by Thomas Günther).
diff --git a/po/de_DE.po b/po/de_DE.po
index bbd203bf..cb5d78d5 100644
--- a/po/de_DE.po
+++ b/po/de_DE.po
@@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ msgid "Editing process already active!"
 msgstr "Schnitt bereits aktiv!"
 
 msgid " abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-.#~,/_@"
-msgstr " aäbcdefghijklmnoöpqrstuüvwxyz0123456789-.#~,/_@"
+msgstr " aäbcdefghijklmnoöpqrsßtuüvwxyz0123456789-.#~,/_@"
 
 msgid "yes"
 msgstr "ja"