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The Encoding Your Code Never Specified
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The Encoding Your Code Never Specified

A locale-dependent decode meant every em dash in 86 captions would have published as mojibake. How we caught it, and why translated text hits this first.

Saya Team
8 min read
Mojibake in Production: When a Double-Encoded Character Reaches the Reader
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Mojibake in Production: When a Double-Encoded Character Reaches the Reader

Eleven scheduled social posts across four brands carried a double-encoded em-dash that survived every gate we had, because nothing checked encoding. The string was valid UTF-8 — just wrong. This is what found it, and why a clean local sweep meant nothing.

Saya Team
9 min read
Building an Enterprise Translation Platform: The Infrastructure Lessons We Learned the Hard Way
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Building an Enterprise Translation Platform: The Infrastructure Lessons We Learned the Hard Way

We built a multi-language enterprise translation platform using Docker and a microservices architecture. Three infrastructure failures — port conflicts, host service access, and silent environment variable changes — taught us lessons that apply to any containerised deployment. Here's exactly what happened and what we changed.

Saya Team
11 min read