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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by seszett on Friday September 25, 2015 @06:40AM (#10277313)
French names have the same problem, with "La Réunion" being shown as "La Rcunion" and "Rhône-Alpes" as "RhAne-Alpes".

It's strange, I can't really understand how these accents can get mangled as these particular single letters.

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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by vcarl on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:31AM (#10278007)
Almost looks like OCR errors, especially Rhône -> RhAne.
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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by bhaak on Friday September 25, 2015 @09:48AM (#10278087)
I don't think that the reason are OCR errors. It's too consistent for that.

I think I also have seen such character set corruptions before, but I can't remember how exactly you can get these particular corruptions.

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Re:Show HN: Free database of geographic place names and geos... by marco1 on Friday September 25, 2015 @06:19PM (#10281058)
They're not OCR errors, unfortunately. Sorry for these problems! We have to investigate!
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