[mkgmap-dev] EE characters in Garmin

Sat Sep 30 23:37:20 BST 2017

Hi Gerd,
Must this command utf-8 file (e.g. template.args) the BOM section?
Darek sobota, 30 września 2017, 07:29AM +02:00 od Gerd Petermann  GPetermann_muenchen at hotmail.com :

>Hi Darek,
>
>When mkgmap reads the command file (like template.args) it expects utf-8.
>
>I think Garmin only uses latin-1 characters in the fields for description, map name etc, but I am not sure about this.
>Did you already try it?
>
>Gerd
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>Betreff: [mkgmap-dev] EE characters in Garmin
>
>Hi,
>Is it possible to display characters from Eastern Europe  code page in Garmin unit (Oregon 650) which are in description fields (e.g. "description", "region-name" ...) in "template.args"?
>In which code page should be this file (utf-8,1250) and which parameter "code-page" ?
>Best Regards
>Darek
>
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