maproulette / maproulette/maproulette-frontend

Broken character encoding in properties view on the map

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Description

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This perhaps seems to interpret UTF-8 as Latin-1.

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the properties view shown in the screenshot and trace where its text encoding is interpreted. Confirm which response or rendering boundary changes UTF-8 into Latin-1, then verify that non-ASCII property values display correctly in the view.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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