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(Not related to the sculpture, just a bit of pedantry.) I appreciate the attempt to render the name of the locality in the present-day local alphabet (Czech), but the diacritic above the 'e' in "Vĕstonice" is wrong: the letter is "letter e with breve", but should be "letter e with caron", giving "Věstonice".

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Here's those two characters together for comparison. It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about because the two render so closely in smaller text.

breve/carom

ĕ / ě

Interestingly enough, searching for ě on the page finds the ĕ as well, but so does search for e...

At least in Firefox the search pane has a ‘Match Diacritics’ option. Turning it on causes it to match only the precise characters in the textbox. (It’s slightly misnamed, since it doesn’t just handle diacritics, but also cases like ⟨e⟩ vs ⟨ɛ⟩.)

The wonders of Unicode collation folding: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr10/#Collation_Folding

It’s:

    ◡        ˅
    e   vs   e

Huh what language uses the curvey one? The czech háček is essentially upside down ^ over the letter

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