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: > > I am noticing some funny characters (e.g. "Wintergr??n?) for species > available > here: > > http://www.gbif.org/species/2882753/vernaculars > > Same is observed using the api: > > http://api.gbif.org/v1/species/2882753/vernacularNames > > I am assuming that the actual common name should be something like > ?Wintergr?n?. > > 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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20151124/0cf764d5/attachment.html>
