Hi Alan, From that first author on the search page...
http://openlibrary.org/authors/OL3908424A/Anaximandre ...if you trace this record back to its root on Amazon, you'll see that the encoding is b0rked there too: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2130437850 There might be something we could add in the import process from Amazon to try to address this encoding problem - we'll look into it. Feel free to either try to fix or report any more you find. Cheers, george On 11/18/10 3:56 PM, Alan Millar wrote: > I come across entries that look like the accented characters are > mangled, though others look fine. > > For example: > > http://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=anaximand* > > has one instance of the "Fragments..." title that shows up with an > A-tilde and copyright symbol, while another has an accented "e". > Presumably both should have the accented e. Does the one look mangled > like I describe to anyone else, or is it just my own setup? I'm using > Firefox 3.6. > > I'm wondering if some data got in with double-encoded UTF8 or > something like that. > > - Alan > _______________________________________________ > Ol-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to > [email protected] _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to [email protected]
