Type
Bug
Status
Closed
Reported By
Brian Bot
Component
Wrong/Bad Data
Resolution
Not a Bug
Votes
0
Created
29/May/17 6:31 PM EDT
Closed
29/May/2017 11:33 PM EDT
Description
Sometime around mid-May, it appears that player names started being returned slightly differently by the API (e.g. "Jose Bautista" became "José Bautista". Is there anything to explicitly explain this change in encoding? Thanks!
Closing Comment
For baseball players, mlb.com (most of the time) is the canonical source for how player names are spelled. Earlier this year, mlb.com added diacritics so some names, particularly the Central and South American names, have been updated. Source: http://m.mlb.com/player/430832/jose-bautista