[mkgmap-dev] broken charset in latest mkgmap

Fri Mar 18 19:21:00 GMT 2011

On 18.03.2011 20:15, Rich wrote:
> On 03/18/11 20:42, Felix Hartmann wrote:
>> On 18.03.2011 19:29, WanMil wrote:
>>> Should we print out a warning if someone still uses the options charset
>>> and/or lower-case? Or should we remove these options?
>>> This seems to be a common pitfall since the index branch has been 
>>> merged.
>>>
>>> WanMil
>>>
>>> Am 18.03.2011 16:47, schrieb Henning Scholland:
>>>
>> that would probably be good. As well as removing lower-case as it does
>> not work anyhow... (or noone could yet report it working).
>
> lowercase works on etrex vista hcx for non-rotated text (so most 
> labels and popups), doesn't work in rotated text) street labels
>
> note that it's just lowercase, not lowercase+diacritic (still haven't 
> coerced the unit to display them properly. got a seriously messed up 
> answer from garmin. considering writing a rant for /. )
Well then maybe it should be changed to not be used for street labels - 
not seen a single gps that supports it for street labels.