[OSM-newbies] HTML character entities in osmarender

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Have forwarded this to the dev list

Cheers

Andy

>-----Original Message-----
>From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:newbies-
>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Robert Funnell
>Sent: 07 June 2008 11:55 AM
>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: [OSM-newbies] HTML character entities in osmarender
>
>I just noticed that a street name with an apostrophe in it (which I
>may or may not have created several weeks ago) is now displayed by
>Osmarender as O'Bryan. Mapnik correctly displays it as O'Bryan
>and it appears in Potlatch as O'Bryan. By now I don't remember whether
>I added the name for that particular street, nor, if so, how I entered
>the apostrophe. I am sure that I didn't explicitly type in "'".
>I'm pretty sure that the apostrophe was properly displayed by
>Osmarender a few weeks ago, but I can't be 100% certain.
>
>Should HTML character entities like ' be expected to be properly
>handled by Osmarender? I see that accented characters are displayed
>properly in other street names, but I don't know how they were
>entered.
>
>- Robert
>
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