Thread: Maemo Mapper v1.0 for the 2006 OS
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2006-06-20 , 20:02
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Originally Posted by pdq
I've tried a couple german ones and they all worked. Thanks for fixing this. You can get a file with non-ISO-8859-1 by demanding a route somewhere in Europe where the street names contain umlauts and such. For example, try from "berlin-steglitz germany" to "berlin-wannsee germany", it contains a lot of ß and one ö.
Well, my reference example that I used for testing was "Berlin, Germany" to "Paris, France", which contained those kinds of characters and worked fine in my testing, so I'm not worried about those characters.

Those characters (and pretty much all characters used by western Europe) are in ISO-8859-1, as indicated by this website. It's cyrillic or greek characters (for example) that are not in ISO-8859-1, and I haven't found any google maps directions that work in regions that use those characters. I'm not even sure Google Maps's directions support non-ISO-8859-1 characters, since its HTML documents are returned with "charset=ISO-8859-1".

The maps themselves (the graphics) contain non-ISO-8859-1 characters (just look at Japan, for example), but I can't seem to make any directions in Japan, or Greece, or anywhere else that doesn't use ISO-8859-1, so there isn't actually any non-ISO-8859-1 text.