ö Is HTML For “Barf”
Isarian sends in a case of encoding flagrante dilecto:
Take it from one who’s worked on any number of brands with cockamamie weird foreign characters in brand names (and I mean worse than the random British u or c instead of s): Those things are poison. Fortunately, the name of the Web site isn’t Schrödinger’s Cat, otherwise you’d see exactly how many ways they could get it wrong.
ThinkGeek, apparently, is a site staffed for geeks, by geeks, so someone told them about the problem and they fixed it.
Well, except for the title text:
For the record, here are some of the places to check for crazy encoded characters:
- Page titles.
- Alt text.
- Title text, both on images and links.
- Page text.
- Meta tags.
- Images with the word.
Note on the page in question, the ampersand in the encoding has been encoded itself. Haven’t we seen that before? Oh, yes, we have.
