[OSM-talk] planet.dump

[Jonas Svensson]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Raphael Jacquot wrote:

> Jonas Svensson wrote:
> > Has there been any discussion on how to handle international names and
> > character encodings? Also things like writing direction (left-to-right,
> > right-to-left and others)?
> >
> > I notice that the MapFeatures-page mentions International name, local name
> > and regional namn so there must have been some thinking on this subject.
>
>
> for starters, the whole thing should be UTF-8

Yes, wouldn't it be good to change the API to require strings (like names)
to be UTF-8 when sent to the server/database? If possible also change the
server to validate strings to be valid UTF-8.

/Jonas