• (nodebb)

    And here I was expecting the "KAIDS HEN" was some butcherization of kaizen, the Japanese business practice of continuous improvement.

  • MRAB (unregistered)

    "refused to display unicode characters correctly"? They're all Unicode, presumably; it's just "é" that it doesn't like!

    At a guess, it's using UTF-8, where "é" (U+00E9) is encoded as C3 A9, but it doesn't know how to display U+00C3 or U+00A9.

  • Officer Johnny Holzkopf (unregistered) in reply to MRAB

    UTF-8 "é" decaying to C3 A9 could at least have been displayed as ISO-8859-1 "é": DELéMONT DéPART 19:21 - COURTéLLE, which is more fun than those silly boxes. But cheer up: German Deutsche Bahn is slow, but uncomfortable!

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered)

    Funnily, I once caused a bug very similar to the SBB one in a software to show the same output on several distributed screens. Each screen was driven by a mini PC which got the data from a central server and cached images and fonts (*1). The bug could cause cache corruption resulting in some characters (*2) missing on some screens only. It wasn't this bug though since in my case a missing character would not show up as two (that indeed seems to be an encoding issue as MRAB wrote), and I never worked for SBB, and my bug was fixed before going into production. :)

    *1 - A separate mini PC for each screen might seem wasteful, but is indeed often the cheapest solution these days. HDMI splitters cost about the same (i.e. negligible in this context), but require expensive HDMI cabling rather than cheap low-speed ethernet (*3). HDMI extenders over ethernet require higher network bandwidth as they transmit the whole image each frame, rather than high-level data when something changes.

    *2 - Though in my case it would affect random characters rather than non-ASCII characters.

    *3 - Or even WIFI if installed anyway, such as for passengers. Though some care should be taken to avoid ending up on this site again. :)

  • (nodebb) in reply to Officer Johnny Holzkopf

    UTF-8 "é" decaying to C3 A9 could at least have been displayed as ISO-8859-1 "é"

    Only if the font has characters for those, though. It could be something like a damaged font file that results in it falling back on the font’s default character (⬜︎, apparently)?

  • mihi (unregistered)

    Deutsche Bahn seems to have hired cheap designers (or is it AI?) for their new seat coach layouts I once had a seat map where one table looked like half of it was stuck outside the window. Hopefully this does not cause any accidents. when the train enters a tunnel or passes platforms.

  • (nodebb)

    Besides, that might spill your drink.

  • (nodebb)

    Platform / is actually pretty common here in Austria. Second most loved here after platform §.

  • (nodebb) in reply to MaxiTB

    I got directed to platform § once while waiting for the train from Vienna to Eierbach. Never did find either the platform or the train.

  • (nodebb)

    I don't get the bus one. Is there any evidence that the photograph was taken after the end of 2025?

  • Your Name (unregistered) in reply to zomgwtf

    Es fährt kein Zug nach Eierbach.

  • 516052 (unregistered)

    Here is a crackpot theory about the seat numbering. What if the seats were prenumbered at manufacturer and than the builders just didn't care and assembled them randomly. So now the train company has to just live with the numbers being randomized?

  • (author) in reply to jeremypnet

    Only the date on the email and my trust in the sender's honesty.

  • Michael R (unregistered) in reply to jeremypnet

    The bus was real. I don't have the picture anymore but Lyle can check the EXIF data if he wants to.

  • A Human (unregistered) in reply to 516052

    Probably correct there.

  • jgh (unregistered)

    Deutshbahn saw British Rail in all its glory and thought: Hold Mein Bier!

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