[mkgmap-dev] Combining maps with differerent charset/code page into one mapset - Supress Warnings -

Sun Jun 22 22:12:37 BST 2014

I'll run that through tomorrow or Tuesday and document it better...

To bad there is nothing easy to convert the codepage in the map (even 
though of course contourlines only map has no actual data for search).
On 22.06.2014 19:25, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
>
> Hi Felix
>
>> I will then always get warnings like the following - even though the
>> maps seem to work fine in Mapsource, Basecamp and on my GPS..
>> /WARNING: input file 73630000.img has different code page 1252//
>> //WARNING: input file 73630000.img has different charset type 10//
>> //WARNING: input files have different code pages//
>> /
>> (e.g.
>> ftp://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/openstreetmap/openmtbmap/odbl/mtbmonaco.exe
>> - just unzip the .exe - it's lzma packed.
>
> In that file it seems that both the .img files have the same code-page
> and sort-order, so when I specify --code-page=1252 there is no warning.#
> It certainly could happen though, and as long as there are no symbols
> in the file with the wrong code-page/sort-order then the map will still
> work.
>
>> Sometimes on bigger maps - mkgmap even crashes while running due to
>> the codepage/charset option - e.g. if I create a map of Europe...
>> Dunno really why this crashes..
>
> What is the crash that you get?
>
> If it is because of mismatched code-pages then it is not unexpected,
> that's why there is a warning.  It is just a warning rather than an
> error, because sometimes there will not be a problem - perhaps
> I should make it an error.
>
> ..Steve

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keep on biking and discovering new trails

Felix
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