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title: "Increase in the number of English place names with non-ASCII characters in GeoIP® products and services"
url: https://00c26a0e.dev-site-4ua.pages.dev/geoip/release-notes/2024-07-10-increase-in-the-number-of-english-place-names-with-non-ascii-characters-in-geoip-products-and-services/
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# Increase in the number of English place names with non-ASCII characters in GeoIP® products and services

_July 10, 2024_

> **⚠️ Warning**
>
> This release note is more than two years old and may no longer reflect
> current behavior. View the
> [latest release notes](/geoip/release-notes/).

You will now see an increase in the number of English place names with accented
characters in GeoIP products and services. Previously, we were using the
ASCII-only version of the names.

Non-ASCII characters may contain diacritics, accents and other marks. For
example:

| Unicode     | ASCII       |
| ----------- | ----------- |
| `La Bassée` | `La Bassee` |

You may see English place 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