[OSM-dev] UTF-8 Failure...

[Andrew McCarthy]

Hi,

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 10:09:01AM +0200, spaetz wrote:
> As my utf-8 knowledge is next to inexistent, I would appreciate if people could have a look whether this is really a case of an UTF-8 error, or whether our UTF-8 checker is wrong.
> 
> The UTF-8 checker in the t at h client aborts when rendering
>     ./tilesGen.pl --Layers=caption xy 35 21 6
> with an UTF-8 error in line 262. The node is question is:
> 
>     <tag k='loc_name' v='Banska Stiavnica,Banska Stiavnica a Banska Bela,Banskà Ãtiavnica,Banskà Ãtiavnica a Banskà Bel##.'/>

The problem is in the last word in this line. Bel is okay, but the next
two bytes, C3 2E, aren't valid UTF-8. If the first byte is in the range
C0–DF, the second byte must be in the range 80–BF.

If you have it on your system, the man page for UTF-8(7) is a really
good reference for this. Very short, and surprisingly readable.

Cheers,

Andrew
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