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Aug 20, 2015·1 min read

This is fascinating. Thank you for sharing! I grew up in Poland and I wrote once about Polish typewriters (sort of), but I didn’t know all of the backstory you shared here.

(We had one of the newer Łuczniks at home.)

The curious case of the disappearing Polish S

One keyboard bug three decades in the making

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Designer/typographer · Writing a book on the history of keyboards: https://aresluna.org/shift-happens

Very interesting article!
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