[mkgmap-dev] Re: bad file format error

Sun May 17 20:03:43 BST 2009

0> In article <4A105A9C.3080303 at free.fr>,
0> frmas <URL:mailto:frmas at free.fr> ("Frmas") wrote:

Frmas> I got that message :
Frmas>
Frmas> Error at line 148424, col 84
Frmas> Bad file format: cartes/paris.osm
Frmas>
Frmas> Looking at that line, it seems it's the "é" of "josé" that gives
Frmas> that error.
Frmas>
Frmas> <node id='94135255' lat='48.8761986' lon='2.423346' user='nitrix'
Frmas> xapi:users='josé,josÃ©m,Esperanza36,Charlie Echo,Hardangels,nitrix'
Frmas> timestamp='2009-05-17T09:53:48Z' uid='125299' version='28'
Frmas> changeset='1219222'>

What encoding is the file?  It looks like there's a mix of Latin-1 and
UTF-8 in that source file.  How was it generated?