[mkgmap-dev] unicode

Wed Feb 27 11:14:31 GMT 2013

Hi

> While reading the code, I stumbled upon code such as
>    if ("unicode".equals(charset))
> in src/uk/me/parabola/imgfmt/app/labelenc/CodeFunctions.java.

That was all just experimenting, right at the beginning before we had 
any proper i18n support at all.

> I guess what I actually want to ask: since we’ve seen that newer
> devices have a rich character repertoire containing latin based, greek,
> cyrillic and arabic, I wonder whether it is only possible to access them
> via code pages, limiting us to a subset every time.
> Do you know whether there’s unicode support in recent devices?

A google search confirms that they can eg: 
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?19806-Is-Mapsource-compatible-with-unicode-maps

..Steve