Comments on: Starbucks puts its web site where its growth is http://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/08/24/starbucks-international/ Adventures in web and mobile globalization Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonhttp://www.globalbydesign.com/blog/2009/08/24/starbucks-international/comment-page-1/#comment-32867 Jon Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:51:37 +0000 http://www.globalbydesign.com/?p=1997#comment-32867 The international dropdown garbage characters are actually a JavaScript error...this is because the whole www.starbucks.com site is in Western European encoding. They need to escape the accented characters in the JavaScript code to get them to display right. What i find strange is the various locale-specific sites are all in UTF-8, but the main site is not. The international dropdown garbage characters are actually a JavaScript error…this is because the whole http://www.starbucks.com site is in Western European encoding. They need to escape the accented characters in the JavaScript code to get them to display right. What i find strange is the various locale-specific sites are all in UTF-8, but the main site is not.

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