Blanes-Ma?

Renfe's public information system at plaza Cataluña station can't cope with the cedilla in Maçanet.

Trevor @ Thursday February 26th 2009 09:50

So is it also unable to process diacritics used in Spanish (does {Mataró -> Matar?}?), or is this latest example of Renfe’s poor system management the result of choosing a character set that excludes non-Spanish dots and dashes?

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  1. Lu Xun
    February 26th 2009 16:49

    This is RENFE’s self-styled rendering of Pinyin Mandarin for “Blanes…shenma?!”

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