[mkgmap-dev] mkgmap: problems with encoding file used with option --license-file

Sun Dec 4 13:55:54 GMT 2016

Hi Patrik

> as promised here the outcome from the (hopefully) proper testing...

Great, so we only seem to have a remaining problem with unicode and the
copyright file.

> That leaves up two things/questions:
>
>   * I think copyright-file needs to be fixed also as this is the only
>     one being displayed on the GPS Device, correct ?

OK this is strange as the copyright file is just converted
into normal labels just like everything else on the map like
street names etc.  It was the licence file that was different.

I will take another look as I may have missed something there.

Can you tell me what characters you do see instead?

>   * question: the description of the option --lower-case says that lower
>     case characters aren't displayed properly on most devices. On mine
>     (etrex30, oregon 450t, monterra) I couldn't find any difference in
>     the map, this option seems to affect only license and copyright
>     files ? Do I miss something ? Is it dangerous to set this option for
>     having a nice license as I might loose support for some devices ?

Yes, the --lower-case should affect the map; it leaves
names with the same case as they appear in OSM input file in the map.
That is as long as you are using one code-page option, without that
you get an ascii uppercase only format.

That comment in the help for --lower-case is out of date now.
When it was written, most or all hand held devices then available
could not display rotated lowercase text.  Horizontal text was OK.
Maybe even earlier devices couldn't display lower case text at all,
I'm not sure.

(eg. See the image in this post 
http://www.mkgmap.org.uk/pipermail/mkgmap-dev/2010q1/007667.html)

I will try to preserve the case of the text, after all if you want or
need the licence text to be in upper case you can just write it that
way in the file.

..Steve