[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH] Alpha code for Highway Symbols

Mon Apr 6 20:10:41 BST 2009

>> Both of them are unicode, but the encoding scheme is different. At the  
>> moment it works fine, if you use an editor, which can handle unicode  
>> properly.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure if I understand your comment.  I have understood that
> java.lang.String uses something like UTF-16 internally.  I have never
> seen a text file containing Unicode characters that would be encoded
> in anything else than UTF-8.  As far as I understand, the MySQL database
> (which I develop for a living) accepts UTF-16 string literals (called
> "ucs2"), but the bug reports I've seen always have been in ASCII,
> ISO 8859-1, or UTF-8.
>
>   
See in the attached screenshot what I meant: Use an proper editor and 
store the file in UTF8 or whatever encoding of unicode. Then you don't 
need any workarounds as the \u4 to edit an unicode file.


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