Amazon can't do Unicode on its gift cards

November 26, 2006 2:22 PM | Permalink

These days, you’d imagine that everyone can handle Unicode and high-bit characters correctly? Think again. This is what I got from Amazon. The weird character combinations are supposed to be “ä” and “õ” and “ü”, but apparently there’s some kind of error in the printing process

I wonder if it’s because I got this from amazon.com and not, say, .co.uk or .de? High-bit characters are common in European languages and I’d imagine they would pay more attention to this in Europe. On the other hand, the item seems to be quite rare and was in stock only in the US store. Although it was still shipped from Frankfurt according to the documents.