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IMG_1476 Unicode fail, Lufthansa IFE (A340-600)

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IMG_1476 Unicode fail, Lufthansa IFE (A340-600) by midendian.
Lufthansa's in-flight entertainment system on this flight was pretty good; it was clearly running some variant of Windows and most of the interface is a web browser (with touch screen).

But as I was futzing with it and flipping through las idiomas, I burst out laughing when I saw the main page in Spanish. UTF-8 encoded characters in a page being rendered as non-UTF-8! This is usually forgivable on random web pages on teh Interweb, but, come on, a closed, custom IFE system? An extra five minutes of QA can go a long ways, guys. 
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Michael Davis - AirTeamImages  Pro User  says:

That's pretty cool to be honest!
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msmith1_ak  Pro User  says:

The couple on the screen seem to be smiling about it too!!
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