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zbyforgotp | 10 months ago

There was no typeface change for “ż” - the other typeface is sometimes used now as it was 30 years ago. See the foto at Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BB

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voytec|10 months ago

Early primary schooling in the early 90s and some preschool teaching in the late 80s taught me to write "ż" as a "ƶ"[0].

> It represents the same sound in the Polish alphabet, remaining in active usage by some as an alternative for the letter Ż (called "Z with overdot").

> In Polish, the character Ƶ is used as an allographic variant of the letter ⟨Ż⟩ (called "Z with overdot") although once used in Old Polish.

Funnily, there's a counter-argument to "Straż Miejska" from article you linked, with "Straƶ Miejska" in another Wikipedia entry[1] :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_with_stroke

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Straz_plakietka.svg

zbyforgotp|10 months ago

I started school in 1980 and I don’t remember this. Also books don’t use this typeface no matter how old.