[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #117: Credits API character set

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#117: Credits API  character set
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  Reporter:  knutsp  |      Owner:
      Type:  defect  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  normal  |  Component:  api.wordpress.org
Resolution:          |   Keywords:  needs-patch
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Comment (by coffee2code):

 I'm not sure about the justification for how it's being handled by the
 credits API.

 The data in question is the user data (specifically display_name) from the
 global users table, so there's that familiar issue (latin1 table).

 But yeah, it seems we could alternatively remove the use of
 `utf8_encode()` in the credits API and things would work as well. I'm not
 sure if there are unforeseen ramifications of doing so. The use of
 `remove_accents()` doesn't appear as though it can be omitted, so names
 still wouldn't be perfect, but at least they would look much better.

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