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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S

Posted by BernardSwiss on · 5 comments
Medium Engineering; By Marcin Wichary 		Mail this story
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A few weeks ago, someone reported this to us at Medium: “I just started an article in Polish. I can type in every letter, except ?. When I press the key for ?, the letter just doesn’t appear. It only happens on Medium.”

This was odd. We don’t really special-case any language in any way, and even if we did… out of 32 Polish characters, why would this random one be the only one causing problems?

Turns out, it wasn’t so random. This is a story of how four incidental ingredients spanning decades (if not centuries) came together to cause the most curious of bugs, and how we fixed it.

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Comments (5)

mrider ·
I don't speak or read Polish. I have no idea what "Medium" is. Despite all that, I really, really enjoyed reading that! Kudos to whoever found the article...

NoDough ·
Medium is the website hosting the article.
mrider ·
Quoting:Medium is the website hosting the article.


Oh - funny, I didn't even notice. <:^)
BernardSwiss Story submitter ·
As far as I can tell, Medium is some sort of news/blogging site, with some interactivity features. And also the name of the software that the site runs on.

Looks fairly decent, actually. So far, anyways...

I think I'm going to keep an eye on it for a while, see how it holds up.

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