[OSM-dev] Error with API request to local server

[Tom Hughes]

Matthias Brandt wrote:

> The 3rd entry has an german umlaut, so I think libxml has problems with 
> reading/processing UTF-8 chars. What can I do? Obviously, you don't have 
> these problems at openstreetmap.org...

No, but then our database has it's character encodings buggered up in 
interesting ways...

I assume that your database encoding is set to UTF-8?

The next question is then how you got your data into the database? Did 
you do it through rails? or with osmosis? or something else?

One thing you may to try is adding "encoding: utf8" to the database 
connection details in config/database.yml and seeing if that helps.

Tom

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