German scharfes s (ß) in headerbox

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Put the character ß (German scharfes s) inside \headerbox, e.g.: 

\headerbox{Große Koalition}

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I expect Große Koalition
I get Grosse Koalition

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) on Ubuntu 12.04 using the Kile editor.
Latest version of baposter (29 September 2011).

Please provide any additional information below.
The rendering of ß in other parts of the document is correct, I only get the 
double s in \headerbox (see screen shot). I'm using the following language 
packages:

\usepackage[german]{babel}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}

I've got textlive-lang-german installed. I also tried alternative commands like 
\ss{} and "se with no success. 

If this is not a bug, I would be grateful if you can let me know how to 
correctly display the scharfes s inside \headerbox 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sandro.c...@googlemail.com on 19 May 2013 at 4:17

Attachments:

• scharfes_s.png

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This is not a bug, it's correct behavior. The header is set in small caps, 
which uses capitals, and thus the 'ß' needs to be transferred into a double S. 
See "Amtliche Regelung der deutschen Rechtschreibung", §25 (E3):
http://rechtschreibrat.ids-mannheim.de/download/regeln2006.pdf
Also see:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9F#Gro.C3.9Fschreibweise_mit_Ersetzung_von_.C3.
9F_durch_SS

(Note: A capital ß has been introduced to unicode in 2008. However, mmost 
fonts do not include this glyph yet, and also, it is not yet part of the 
orthographic standard)

Original comment by jspi...@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2013 at 9:38

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Original comment by brian.amberg@gmail.com on 17 Oct 2013 at 12:02

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