Bug: Other charsets

[Tomi]

The system replaces all non-English characters with a ? (for example, čž, etc.).

If hostip.info is to become a recognised community-based project, than this must be improved.

Tomi

[paulhaeder]

I agree. I'd love to see Zürich, instead of Z?rich etc. Please try to solve this.

Paul

[robocoder]

Is that an actual example? It looks like Zürich is stored as Zurich in the database.

I did, however, notice that Beaupré, QC is coming up as Beaupr, QC.

There are a number of ways to approach this, including:

• store the umlauts natively in the database
• add an encode/decode step
• use lookup tables (e.g., Zurich -> Zürich)

Also, the soundex (used in "Make a correction") would need to handle umlauts (if it doesn't already do so).

[paulhaeder]

That is an actual example.

It looks like Zürich is stored as Zurich in the database.

Yes and no. That's another problem I've come across. Cities are stored with different spellings: Zurich and Zürich. Rome is aka. Roma (Italian) and Rom (German). Which one is returned, depends on the IP...

[sneba]

I would like to know the status of this bug before I consider implementing the hostip system into my project. Are special characters in citynames still not shown correctly? Can anyone tell me?

Regards,

[Coval]

Thanks for a great free service! Great job!

There is a huge problem with polish city names. Most of them which includes in their names our "national characters" are corrupted.

ś, Ś, Ł, ł, ą, Ą, ź, Ź, ż, Ż, ę, Ę

In what charset is hostinfo database encoded?