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Well another time was back in 2019 [0] with an article about Karel Čapek [1] :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2019-08-26

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20789755

Also, did you notice Merkur?

This 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.

Especially 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"

"shrink the accented letter to fit the label height with the accent"

Ah, memories of youth... not to mention KEYBCS2.