[mkgmap-dev] small transliteration bug

Wed Jul 23 09:48:48 BST 2014

thanks, but those scripts operate on XML files, not pbf files we use
nowadays :(

best regards

Michal Rogala


2014-07-22 16:28 GMT+02:00 Bill <bill-mkgmap at halibut.com>:

>
> I've found at least one project using mkgmap that converts 0xF3 to an o
> (and some other in cp1252 that are not ascii characters like 0xD3 to an O,
> 0xED to an i, and probably more) using an external shell script. The script
> also converts letters that are outside of cp1252, and I haven't quite
> figured out how the script is being invoked. I guess it could be applied to
> the OSM data before being sent to mkgmap. There is also a script to make
> all names upper case only, that I am pretty sure gets run on the OSM data,
> and would make sense to run it after the filter command.
>
> General Web Page:
> http://www.ggbs.org/index.php/en/Maps.html
>
> Character Conversion:
> http://www.ggbs.org/OSM/filter.sh
>
> Force Uppercase:
> http://www.ggbs.org/OSM/xmlfilter
>
> Hope this helps,
> Bill
>
>
>
>
> On 07/22/2014 02:47 AM, Michał Rogala wrote:
>
>>
>> Well, this is an odd case :). Indeed, this letter is part of cp1252 - but
>> in case of Polish language, all other diacritical letters (outside cp1252
>> charset) are transliterated except this one. This results in situation when
>> user enters city/street name with transliterated characters, but index
>> contains non-transliterated letter ó - and the search fails.
>>
>> Would it be possible to provide custom transliteration table/entries from
>> a command line argument?
>>
>> best regards
>>
>> Michal Rogala
>>
>>
>> 2014-07-22 10:02 GMT+02:00 Steve Ratcliffe <steve at parabola.me.uk <mailto:
>> steve at parabola.me.uk>>:
>>
>>
>>     Hi
>>
>>         latin1 transliteration doesn't touch letter ó (0x00F3) - it
>>         should be
>>         converter to letter o.
>>
>>
>>     Why? The letter is a valid character in cp1252 as far as I know. It
>>     also is displayed in mapsource for me.
>>
>>     ..Steve
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