j3camero / canada-election-forecast

Code that forecasts the results for each electoral district (riding) in the Canadian 2015 federal election
Apache License 2.0
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Switch to Unicode #9

Open j3camero opened 9 years ago

j3camero commented 9 years ago

To handle French accented characters, strings are encoded with ISO-8859-1 (latin1). This is fucking insane and is going to cause a major problem at some point. Switch to unicode in text files and in the database.