[mkgmap-dev] character repertoires

Tue Feb 26 21:52:08 GMT 2013

On 13-02-26 10:59:09 CET, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:03:23AM +0100, Minko wrote:
> >The option --lower-case might look better on newer generation GPS (the Dutch letter IJ finally gets rendered as it should, not Ij) but in older gps models the labels of the roads are not visible anymore, only dots and the first letter: a.....
> 
> IIRC, on the Garmin Edge 705 the lower-case works in 'tooltips' but not 
> in the rotated fonts that are used for road names. There, it would only 
> display the upper-case letters as is, and show all lower-case letters as 
> '?' (it could be '.' too, but I think it was '?').

Similar on a GPSmap 60CSx.
With --lower-case, the lower case characters in street names show up as
something similar to “.” in the map, but show up fine in the tooltip,
including the “ß”.

In POIs, the lower case characters including ß show up fine in both
map and tooltip.

> Would it be useful to implement a lower-case option that upper-cases 
> only the road names and keeps everything else in mixed case?

I agree: the mixed letter case in POI names looks nicer IMHO and
takes up less space.

rj