[mkgmap-dev] Abbreviated text in mobileXT

Thu Apr 16 18:08:06 BST 2009

> Probably, mkgmap should make some effort to automatically write a  
> sensible code page -- how are the options latin1, charset and code-page 
> meant to work together? Does one affect input, the other output?

Its mostly historical when I didn't fully understand what was required.
The two things were selecting between the 6 bit format and the 8 bit format
and then getting the correct character set for the 8 bit format.

I need a charset to do the conversion, but I think that I can always
create one from a code page number.

latin1 is just a shortcut for charset=iso-8859-1.

As codepage is used inside the file, everything should be done in terms of
codepage so latin1 should be codepage=1251 etc.

Cheers,

..Steve