[OSM-dev] UTF-8 problems in informationfreeway?

[Stefan Baebler]

On Dec 21, 2007 7:41 AM, Brett Henderson <brett at bretth.com> wrote:
> I'm a dufus, I may have found the problem.  I didn't have the production
> encoding hack enabled on the hourly diffs, I've enabled it now.
> Presumably this means that most non ascii characters were being mangled.
s*it happens :)

Perhaps writing some of the commandline parameters (all sans
passwords) into the header of xml might be a good idea to know how
data was obtained. Of course this would only reveal last osmosis
operation on the given dataset, but better this than no info at all.
When opening such file as input stream with osmosis this info could be
shown (either by default or in verbose mode).

> Let me know if you see it occurring on any new hourly diffs.  Daily
> diffs already had the prod encoding hack enabled so if they contain UTF8
> issues please let me know.
I will check my problematic nodes tonight and report if there are any problems.

> It is easy for me to re-generate the hourly diffs if necessary, I just
> have to modify the timestamp file and it will go back in time and
> re-generate up to the current time.  If anybody wishes me to do this let
> me know.
It is probably easier to start with importing fresh planet dump into
informationfreeway, than it would be to import every hourly dump ever
since they were introduced. Then daily , then continue with hourly...
until we find some other problem and start all over :)

Stefan