Comment by ilyanep
10 years ago
Some more:
The disappearing Polish S https://medium.engineering/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-...
System Shock "A story of a 25-year-old font coming back with a vengeance" https://medium.com/designing-medium/system-shock-6b1dc6d6596...
The fact that Polish language has 2 keyboard layouts installed by default probably costed humanity millions of dollars in wasted time, helpdesk calls, etc.
You see - the "typist layout" (the one nobody uses) has "z" and "y" switched. And by default both layouts are enabled, and the shortcut to switch between them is Alt+Space (or Ctrl+Space - I think it changed at some point?). So when you have "z" or "y" in your password and you accidently pressed "alt+space" - your password "stops working". But you won't see why - because it's all stars. So you try 3 times and you have to call helpdesk.