[mkgmap-dev] Option --latin1 not working any more?

Thu Feb 5 16:28:18 GMT 2009

Hi Ben,

many thanks, that works!

jan

Am Donnerstag, den 05.02.2009, 08:51 -0600 schrieb Ben Konrath:
> Hi Jan-Ole,
> 
> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Jan-Ole Spahn <Jampl at gmx.de> wrote:
> <snip>
> > In the version route-r806 the option --latin1 worked to get german
> > Umlauts displayed correctly (Using nocodepage option for osm2mp).
> >
> > Now i tried r858 and r861, and runnig with same options the unlauts will
> > be displayed as ??, on Garmin oregon and QLandkarte.
> >
> > This was pretty working for umlauts:
> > #java -Xmx512M -enableassertions -jar mkgmap-route-r806/mkgmap.jar
> > --latin1 --route --gmapsupp map1.mp
> >
> > This produces ?? instead of umlauts:
> > java -Xmx512M -enableassertions -jar mkgmap-r861/mkgmap.jar --latin1
> > --route --gmapsupp map1.mp
> 
> I had the same problem except with Spanish accents when I switched
> from using the route branch to truck. It seems that some code was
> added to the PolishMapDataSource class which assumes the characters
> are iso-8859-1. To fix it I changed '--codepage' to '--codepage 1252'
> in my call to osm2mp.pl. If I understand things correctly, this should
> work for you as well.
> 
> Cheers, Ben
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