[OSM-dev] REST API encoding

[Immanuel Scholz]

> Thomas Walraet a écrit :
>> Did the API encoding change lately ?
>
> This is strange.
> I try to add tags, and I had to use accented chars (éèà...)
>
> A few day ago, everything worked fine (with JOSM). Now it work on
> segments, but not on ways !
>
>
> Look here :
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit.html?lat=48.85097973283361&lon=2.354533672332764&zoom=16
>
> At the left, there is a segment called "tést"
> At the bottom-right, there is a way with the same name but it display
> with strange characters (as UTF-8 displayed in ISO-8859-1).
>
> This is the same in JOSM.

I just created a way next to the broken one named "tést" and it worked
only until the applet got reloaded. This suggests, that the API is broken,
not the clients ;-).

Do you add a ticket?

Ciao, Imi