[OSM-dev] Binary OSM; the first pass encoder

[Chris Browet]

>
>> I read it and has some valid points :) UTF16 handling is not yet my thing.
>> I presume I could also implement this in my Planet extractor. Or do you
>> already have a simple generator for this?
>>
>
> UTF16 is just the default for Qt strings ;-) wchar* is UTF16, too. There
> definitely are UTF characters used, so char* is probably too restrictive,
> unless you handle UTF yourself.
>
>>
>> I must however add that UTF16 is a big waste of space for western european
languages. UTF8 is probably far more desirable...
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