[OSM-dev] Querying for non-native characters in name field

[Jóhannes Birgir Jensson]

One side effect of Maps.me is the editing of name= field (this has been 
mostly fixed in the latest versions though, most entries now go into 
name:phone language).

I want to be able to do an overpass query for Iceland where name= field 
contains non-Icelandic characters. These could be for example Chinese, 
Cyrillic or even other European characters (such as âà for example). I'm 
guessing it could be difficult for the latin characters but hopeful it 
would be easier for non-latin alphabets.

Is there a magic formula for achieving this?

--Stalfur / Jói