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(Not related to the sculpture, just a bit of pedantry.) I appreciate the attempt to render the name of the locality in the present-day local alphabet (Czech), b
by inejge 2y ago
(Not related to the sculpture, just a bit of pedantry.) I appreciate the attempt to render the name of the locality in the present-day local alphabet (Czech), but the diacritic above the 'e' in "Vĕstonice" is wrong: the letter is "letter e with breve", but should be "letter e with caron", giving "Věstonice".
- 0_____0 2y agoHere's those two characters together for comparison. It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about because the two render so closely in smaller text. breve/carom ĕ / ě
- vanous 2y agoInterestingly enough, searching for ě on the page finds the ĕ as well, but so does search for e...
- bradrn 2y agoAt least in Firefox the search pane has a ‘Match Diacritics’ option. Turning it on causes it to match only the precise characters in the textbox. (It’s slightly misnamed, since it doesn’t just handle diacritics, but also cases like ⟨e⟩ vs ⟨ɛ⟩.)
- layer8 2y agoThe wonders of Unicode collation folding: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Collation_Folding http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Collation_Folding
- thih9 2y agoIt’s: ◡ ˅ e vs e
- pxmpxm 2y agoHuh what language uses the curvey one? The czech háček is essentially upside down ^ over the letter