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

Wed Aug 13 15:40:30 BST 2014

Am I doing something wrong?

name:int!=* & name=* {set name='${name|ascii:} ${name}'

However for Syria or Greece I don't see any change. Is my command wrong, 
or is there maybe a bug in the patch?...
On 11.08.2014 23:26, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> Hi Felix
>
>> 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) '
>
> A quick patch attached which is a first attempt at such a thing.
>
> Usage:
>
>    ${name|ascii:}
>    ${name|latin1:}
>
> You need the colon there at the moment, but I will fix that if we go
> with this syntax.  An alternative syntax could be: 
> ${name|transliterate:ascii}
>
>> 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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-- 
keep on biking and discovering new trails

Felix
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