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Re:Charset="WTF-8" by jplrssn on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:15AM (#42228299)
I imagine the “Poland” part of the address would narrow it down somewhat.
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by mkotowski on Sunday November 24, 2024 @10:40AM (#42228444)
I got curious if I can get data to answer that, and it seems so.

Based on xlsx from [0], we got the following ??d? localities in Poland:

1 x Bądy, 1 x Brda, 5 x Buda, 120 x Budy, 4 x Dudy, 1 x Dydy, 1 x Gady, 1 x Judy, 1 x Kady, 1 x Kadź, 1 x Łada, 1 x Lady, 4 x Lądy, 2 x Łady, 1 x Lęda, 1 x Lody, 4 x Łódź, 1 x Nida, 1 x Reda, 1 x Redy, 1 x Redz, 74 x Ruda, 8 x Rudy, 12 x Sady, 2 x Zady, 2 x Żydy

Certainly quite a lot to search for a lost package.

[0]: https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/188,wykaz-urzedowych-nazw-mie...

Re:Charset="WTF-8" by jplrssn on Sunday November 24, 2024 @03:16PM (#42230177)
Interesting! However, assuming that ASCII characters are always rendered correctly and never as "?", it seems like the only solution for "??d?" would be one of the four Łódźs?
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by schubart on Sunday November 24, 2024 @04:36PM (#42230845)
Sounds like someone is getting ready for Advent of Code!
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by poincaredisk on Sunday November 24, 2024 @05:43PM (#42231272)
Interestingly, Lady, Łady and Lądy will end up the same after the usual transliteration.
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by ozornin on Monday November 25, 2024 @06:22AM (#42235296)
So, transliteration to "Lady", "?ady" and "L?dy" respectively seems to work even better in this case than "Lady"
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by account42 on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:51AM (#42247304)
That's (one reason) why postal codes exist. Dunno about Poland, but town names here are not unique to begin with.
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by yreg on Sunday November 24, 2024 @05:58PM (#42231351)
Experienced postal workers most probably know well that ??d? represents a municipality with three non-ascii characters.
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by ctm92 on Monday November 25, 2024 @06:41AM (#42235414)
Łódź seems to be the only one translating to ??d?, all others have normal ASCII characters in the places 1, 2 and 4
Re:Charset="WTF-8" by ygra on Sunday November 24, 2024 @03:46PM (#42230417)
And the postal code.