[OSM-talk] using arabic letters in street names

Jonas Svensson jonas at mozoft.com
Thu Nov 23 12:27:36 GMT 2006


On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Ali Lakrakbi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am from Morocco and here the street names are in arabic letters, I
> am having a problem to name streets. I name the street in arabic with
> JOSM, JOSM shows the name correctly, I upload the data to the server,
> and then next time I log to JOSM and download my last modified data,
> the street name is change to something like: $#£%ù¤.
>
> I have tried the same with the applet and the same happened but in
> this case the letters where changed to ????????.
>
> Is OSM server accepting unicode?

Currently there are a lot of problems with unicode and OSM. Hopefully this 
will be solved by Steve's Month of OSM coding 
<http://www.asklater.com/steve/osmonth/>.

/Jonas


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