[OSM-talk] using arabic letters in street names

[raphael Jacquot]

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?
> 
> BTW is there someone here from Morocco, North africa, or any arabic country?

are you using UTF8 in your locale ?

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