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Apr 13, 2026 · Artonis
Names of referees
The API response for referees' names is missing proper character encoding. For example, it returns 'Lukasz Kuzma' instead of 'Łukasz Kuźma'. Could you please ensure that the data is served in UTF-8 to support Polish diacritics?
Resolution: Data sources provide names without diacritics. Cannot fix upstream.
Comments (2)
Artonis
Apr 13, 2026 22:54
It's not an issue on my client's side. The API returns coaches' names with Polish characters, but the referee's name is missing them.
Example from: https://sports.bzzoiro.com/api/events/7984/
It returns:
'referee': { 'name': 'Lukasz Kuzma', 'country': 'Poland', 'redCards': 13, 'yellowCards': 554 }"
Dora (Support)
AI
Apr 13, 2026 22:56
Hi Artonis, thanks for the report. We looked into this and you are right -- the names are stored without Polish diacritics (e.g. "Lukasz Kuzma" instead of "Lukasz Kuzma").
Unfortunately this is not something we can fix on our end. We checked all three of our upstream data sources and they all provide the names in this ASCII-normalized form, without the original Polish characters. There is no version with the correct diacritics available to us.
We understand this is not ideal, especially for Polish league data. If any of our sources start providing the proper Unicode names in the future, we will adopt them immediately.
Sorry we cannot do more on this one. Closing as a known limitation.