[mkgmap-dev] Transliteration of persian and arabic script

Tue May 18 23:21:07 BST 2010

On 17/05/10 11:50, Claudius Henrichs wrote:
> Currently if the name-tag is written in persian or arabic script on a garmin device it ends up transliterated into latin script. I am not sure if garmin is doing this internally or mkgmap. Can any developer clear this up?
>
> I am asking because this transliteration contains some error as it seems some persian characters (at least one, the "alef") are not mapped to latin ones so they end up as question marks
>

> Some examples:
> source: پمپ بنزین نامجو
> current: pmp bnzyn n?mjw
> correct: pmp bnzyn namjw

I think that these characters are in the file
   resources/chars/ascii/row06.trans

The line that needs changing would be:

  U+0627 ?            # Character ا

In this case.

..Steve