• msfroh@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I’m going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an “s” with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn’t part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an “s” with a cedilla.

    I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.

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      2 days ago

      I think you are correct about it being Romanian, because I think it was an s character. I tried looking for the article so I was not going off memory.