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BugReport: GeoPlanet possible utf8 bug

Hello,

Certain characters appear to be getting garbled in the Brazilian geodata (in all languages that I tried, including Portuguese and US+UK English).

For example, woeid 26795164, "Olhos-d'Água" ("Olhos-d'Agua", with an accent on the 'A') appears as "Olhos-d'-gua". This bug is present in several other Places, and in the admin2 field of this Place, but I've thus far only spotted issues with this particular character (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE, codepoint U+00C1).

See: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/26795164
This also happens when using the Perl Net::GeoPlanet API.


Best regards,
Colin

P.S., I couldn't find anywhere more suitable for posting GeoPlanet bugs; apologies if this is the wrong place to submit bug reports.

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  • QUOTE (Colin Horne @ Oct 18 2010, 06:43 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
    Hello,

    Certain characters appear to be getting garbled in the Brazilian geodata (in all languages that I tried, including Portuguese and US+UK English).

    For example, woeid 26795164, "Olhos-d'Água" ("Olhos-d'Agua", with an accent on the 'A') appears as "Olhos-d'-gua". This bug is present in several other Places, and in the admin2 field of this Place, but I've thus far only spotted issues with this particular character (LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE, codepoint U+00C1).

    See: http://where.yahooapis.com/v1/place/26795164
    This also happens when using the Perl Net::GeoPlanet API.


    Best regards,
    Colin

    P.S., I couldn't find anywhere more suitable for posting GeoPlanet bugs; apologies if this is the wrong place to submit bug reports.


    This looks like a bug. I'll pass this along to our data team for correction in a future release.

    Eddie Babcock
    Yahoo! Geo Technologies
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