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I think it's the first time I see a Czech/Slovak accented "č" on the front page of Hacker News. Well done!
by MezzoDelCammin 2y ago
I think it's the first time I see a Czech/Slovak accented "č" on the front page of Hacker News. Well done!
- Squarex 2y agoWell another time was back in 2019 [0] with an article about Karel Čapek [1] :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-08-26 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-08-26 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789755
- urcite_ty_kokos 2y agoAlso, did you notice Merkur?
- inglor_cz 2y agoThis was indeed somewhat startling, like meeting an old, well-known dog that just starts mewing at you. We are used to being the Leprechaun Folk of the West - present almost everywhere, but only rarely seen.
- MezzoDelCammin 2y agoEspecially if You're old enough to remember what ISO 8859-2 was for. One of the standards that everyone knew existed, yet few actually cared enough to correctly implement in practice. I still have a label printer that knows accented characters exist, yet the implementation is "shrink the accented letter to fit the label height with the accent"
- inglor_cz 2y ago"shrink the accented letter to fit the label height with the accent" Ah, memories of youth... not to mention KEYBCS2.