[mkgmap-dev] Abbreviated text in mobileXT

Fri Feb 20 01:07:25 GMT 2009

Thanks!  It's working OK.

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Robert Vollmert
<rvollmert-lists at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2009, at 20:45, nyem wrote:
>>
>> I wonder if anyone has tried mkgmap-generated map on Garmin mobileXT
>> (symbian). Text labels (POI and streetnames) are all abbreviated. Burger
>> King appears as B K, but KFC is OK. A spell search on 'Burger' correctly
>> returns 'B K'.
>>
>> Setting all labels as uppercase doesn't work though. I've tried different
>> options (latin1, lower-case in mkgmap and upcase, codepage in osm2mp) but
>> still the same problem. No such problem viewing the map in mapsource.
>
> For those affected by this problem, we found a work-around: Supply a code
> page on the command line: "--code-page=1252". This code page gets written to
> the header of the LBL file, while otherwise mkgmap just writes zero.
>
> Probably, mkgmap should make some effort to automatically write a sensible
> code page -- how are the options latin1, charset and code-page meant to work
> together? Does one affect input, the other output?
>
> Cheers
> Robert
>
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