[mkgmap-dev] special characters and capital letters

Wed Dec 13 10:23:31 GMT 2023

Sorry - should say ... {tag|subst: ...

Ticker

On Wed, 2023-12-13 at 10:18 +0000, Ticker Berkin wrote:
> Hi Diego
> 
> On the issue of case, your build is probably running without --lower-case, so
> everything in the .img file is UPPER. The Garmin device then initcaps stuff in
> a
> way of its own choosing.
> 
> Use of --lower-case can cause problems and unknowns with the index system
> where
> there are different case representations of the same location. Even then my
> Garmin device still chose to change the case sometimes as it displays.
> 
> The degree symbol can't be represented in your chosen charset and there are
> tables in mkgmap to handle reasonable mappings.
> 
> I suggest you use something like ... '${tag:subst:"o=>o"} in your style, where
> the first o is unicode degree symbol and the second is whatever you want. You
> will need a text editor that handles unicode.
> 
> Hope this helps
> Ticker
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2023-12-12 at 18:34 +0000, helter skelter wrote:
> > Hello guys
> > I have a problem with text and special characters on my map.
> > In OSM there are some elements that contain a roman number in their name,
> > such
> > as "I° peak", "II° peak", "III° peak" and so on.
> > On my rendered map I get the symbol ° replaced with the word "deg", so "Ideg
> > peak", "Iideg peak", "Iiideg peak" and so on.
> > I can't understand how to avoid the replacement of ° to deg. Also, I would
> > like to keep the capital letters like in the original name, is it possible ?
> > Thank you
> > Cheers
> > Diego
> > 
> > 
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