[OSM-talk] handover of tile.openstreetmap.org

[Jon Burgess]

On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 17:24 +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:
> On 5/12/07, Jon Burgess <jburgess777 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > The bug has been tracked down to an issue with Mapnik rendering names
> > which start with the UTF-8 sequence e2 80 8c (a "ZERO WIDTH
> > NON-JOINER"). I have search the Postgres rendering DB for all such
> > strings and have removed this character from them (ways 4294988,
> > 4295399, 4313895, 4361612). I have alerted Artem to the issue in mapnik.
> 
> All four way are in Tehran, and very probably they are all my fault. I
> just fixed them.
> 
> All are of course typos, but the reason they arise is that the
> character ZWNJ is used frequently in Persian, and is at the same time
> invisible among Latin letters (it's a character that breaks joining
> between letters of the Arabic and Indic scripts). I should have
> accidentally pressed the key for the character when my keyboard has
> been in Persian mode, and then, since I could not see any resulting
> character on the screen, didn't notice it.
> 
> Roozbeh

Thanks for fixing them. Don't feel bad about it, the code should be able
to handle this without crashing. 

The 4GB planet.osm data set is good at causing problems in many software
tools.

	Jon