ESPN and accents (or lack thereof)

John Yunker
Oct 26, 2021

With the World Series approaching I wanted to share an odd localization oversight on ESPN.

The following two screen shots are from earlier this year. See if you can spot the differences in how the baseball player Carlos Rodón’s name is displayed on ESPN Deportes vs. ESPN:

John Yunker

Web globalization expert, UX/PX researcher, co-founder of Byte Level Research and Ashland Creek Press.