[OSM-dev] planet.osm - fix

Jonas Svensson jonass at lysator.liu.se
Tue Aug 15 15:12:37 BST 2006


On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, David Sheldon wrote:

> I vote for ASCII, and anything that cannot be represented in ASCII being
> represented by entities in the &#..; form. This way there should be no
> transport problems. Just people who don't understand the XML
> specification trying to write XML parsers.

No matter what, the server should not export things like
"Straße" or "Genter Straße" since these are latin-1 or
broken utf-8 when we expect UTF-8. Even if html-escaped or not.
I suggest we look into that instead of arguing if we want HTML-escaped
entities or not.

/Jonas





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