[mkgmap-dev] Command to transliterate Characters/Cyrillic/Greek into latin1 even for Unicode maps?

Fri Aug 8 10:53:05 BST 2014

Push Up!

After using unicode maps for some more time, I think this is really 
important. Especially for older devices which will only show a subset of 
latin1 characters present in unicode. I would like to make sure to have 
the possibility to use transliteration even for unicode maps.

Case Object 1:
name:en=moscow
name=??????

Case Object 2:
name=??????

Rules:
name:en=* & name=*  {set name='${name:en}' '${name}'}
name:en!=* & name=* {set name='${mkgmap:translatin:name}' '${name}'}

where mkgmap:translatin:name tells mkgamp to try to transliterate the 
name to latin..

Of course it would be even better if there could be a rule like
name:en!=* & name=* & name!=mkgmap:latin - so mkgmap would check if the 
script is latin, and if not pass on to the next line. But even the 
simple rule without check would be a great help.

On 02.07.2014 22:27, Felix Hartmann wrote:
> The standard behavior so far for my maps in Japan or China was to use 
> --latin1, and hope that all towns/cities/names if not name:en present 
> - got transliterated decently into latin characters.
> However if using Unicode this is of course not happening.
>
> Could there be a command like {set name='${mkgmap:trans:name}' }
> That way one could build a map that is usable for people who do 
> understand the local script/language, and who don't by setting all 
> names e.g.
> name=('name:en|name:int|mkgmap:trans:name''(name in e.g. Japanese 
> Script) '
>
> Even better would of course be if there would be an additional 
> function to check if "name" is already in two scripts - this is often 
> the case for Japan or Thailand or Singapore... Dunno if that is easy 
> to implement. I hope/guess the above /mkgmap:trans:name/ would be 
> easy, as the code exists if you use e.g. --latin1.
> --
> keep on biking and discovering new trails
>
> Felix
> openmtbmap.org &www.velomap.org

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