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Comment by rabidrat | Hacker News Reader

That's really cool that they got the information for even some obscure talents like BjÃ¶rk and BeyoncÃ©.

is it the http header?

    content-type: text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1

I suspect the developer used utf8 on his system but has no control over the response headers

In this case he could use http-equiv meta-tags.

there actually is a meta-tag with utf8 so my explanation doesn't seem to hold

When I saw this I actually googled Beyonce to see if she changed her name like artists do sometimes