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It's not diacritics, it's something more broken with geo coding.

Szczecin, Poland is found but handle is pl-undefined as for you...

But what is more interesting, Stettin, Poland works ok... and link is surprisingly meet.hn/city/pl-Szczecin

Geocoding needs some love.

Looks like even 80 years after the war, Germans haven't relinquished the city.¹

¹Stettin is an old German name for the city of Szczecin, which was taken from Germany and given to Poland to punish Germany and Poland² after the WW2.

²Poland lost 180k km² in the east, compared to 100k km² gained in the west.

My (German) grandfather was born in Stettin :)

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