[josm-dev] Image Direction / Compass Camera images

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Wed, 19 May 2010, Florian Lohoff wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 05:11:58PM +0200, Florian Lohoff wrote:
>> +	    if (entry.getExifImgDir() != null) {
>> +                osd.append(tr("\nDirection {0}°", Math.round(entry.getExifImgDir())));
>> +	    }
>
> The ° gets garbled - it works in my environment - seems okay in the
> the josm git - but in the josm-latest its shown as 2 rectangles
> in the image viewer - So my guess is that its a utf-8 in the svn/git repo
> and the build machine is an iso-8859-Something and intereprets the multibyte
> character as individual characters ...

You need to use \u... instead of UTF-8 (see e.g. measurement plugin). 
Currently JOSM code is 7 bit ASCII and I don't want to change that, as we 
very seldom use such characters.

Ciao
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