More non-ASCII characters in English place names in GeoIP products and services

November 6, 2023
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Beginning this week, you will see more English place names in GeoIP products and services that contain non-ASCII characters, especially for small villages and towns. Non-ASCII characters may contain diacritics, accents and other marks, for example:

UnicodeASCII
JönköpingJonkoping

You may see English names with non-ASCII characters in all products and services that contain geolocation data, including:

  • GeoIP Insights, City Plus, and Country web services
  • GeoIP Enterprise, City, and Country databases
  • minFraud Insights and Factors web services
  • GeoLite City and Country web services
  • GeoLite City and Country databases