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I'm getting some results from the Postal Code webservice that don't appear to be encoding the "Place" in UTF-8 properly. I'm trying to determine whether I'm going crazy or whether there is an encoding issue with the data that I'm looking at.

I get the strange characters even using the html interface to the web service on the geonames site. I'm using Firefox to flip the display encoding around and I can't find any encoding that gives me a recognizable character.

Can someone give me a second opinion on whether this is me or the data in this situation:

http://www.geonames.org/postalcode-search.html?q=H9C%09&country=CA

Thanks,
- marc

Hi Marc

It is not your fault. There seems to be something wrong with French characters for Canada / Quebec.
I will take care of it and keep you updated. Thanks

Regards

Marc

Hi Marc

I have fixed a couple of encoding problems for Canadian place names in the postal code data set. I hope I have found all of them.
The fix is available in todays dump.

Cheers

Marc

Thanks Marc,

That appears to have fixed all the problems I had spotted.

cheers,
- marc