[Openstreetmap-dev] Re: [Openstreetmap] OSM 8bit databasetransparency.

[Tom Carden]

"Erik Johansson" wrote:
>
> Well, you could try, 8bit latin1 and UTF-8 works for me. Everything
> goes straight from the XML parser to the database, so it's not really
> something that OSM is deciding upon now. You are right the applet
> ignores UTF-8 strings completly I tried writing a small test
> application  in Processing and I get nothing from the keys that are
> 8bit...
>

Is this you?

http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=Programs;action=display;num=1138587108;start=0#0

I'll investigate myself, and I'll prod those in the know.

Tom.