[API-users] funny characters in common names / vernaculars for species

[Guido Sautter]

That usually happens when, at some point, UTF-8 encoded text is read as ANSI. It 
only happens if the text contains characters above 127 (0x79), however.

Hope that helps,
Guido

> Hey y’all:
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> I am noticing some funny characters (e.g. "Wintergrün”) for species available 
> here:
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> http://www.gbif.org/species/2882753/vernaculars
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> Same is observed using the api:
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> http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2882753/vernacularNames
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> I am assuming that the actual common name should be something like “Wintergrün”.
>
> While I was looking into this, I also noticed that no characterset is 
> specified in http response headers.
>
> Please confirm that this is expected behavior.
>
> thx,
> -jorrit
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