[mkgmap-dev] Index with Arabic names

Tue Jun 7 14:24:23 BST 2011

Hi...

> When names are read out of the .img file, the code page is ignored.
> I'm in the middle of making changes to the character set code so I've
> attached a new version of the patch which includes a fix.
>
> If you just want to try the fix separately The relevant part of the
> patch is:
>
> @@ -89,6 +100,7 @@
>   			funcs.setEncoder(new Simple8Encoder());
>   		} else {
>   			funcs.setEncodingType(ENCODING_FORMAT9);
> +			funcs.setDecoder(new AnyCharsetDecoder(charset));
>   			funcs.setEncoder(new AnyCharsetEncoder(charset));
>   			guessCodepage(funcs, charset);
>   		}
>
> The patch, is the second version of the previous translit_first patch
> (which was for problems first noted in Greek names).

Thanks for your quick answer...

I'm sorry to tell you that the patch didn't resolve the issue. I've
tried the patch on both the version r1955 and the svn trunk.

Regards,
Hosam