[OSM-talk] Tibetan characters

[Colin Marquardt]

2009/8/13 Markus Lindholm <markus.lindholm at gmail.com>:
> I thought I'd spend some time on adding name:bo (i.e. in Tibetan) tags
> for places in Tibet. I was thinking of copy-pasting the place names
> from Wikipedia (guess that's ok), as my knowledge in Tibetan is just
> as limited as everybody else's. It's just that I can't find a way to
> enter Tibetan text. I tried Potlatch and Josm, but in both Tibetan
> characters just show up as blank squares. There's at least one name:bo
> tag in the database and it shows up ok in history and data views.
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/244082116

I suppose neither Flash (Potlatch) nor Java (JOSM) have access to a
Tibetan font, so they display the square, as they are not using
fontconfig or equivalent which provides the fonts to the rest of your
system.
When you copy some Tibetan text from Wikipedia into JOSM, save the osm
file and look at it with an editor that knows Tibetan fonts, does it
look okay?
In that case, it should also be okay to upload the data.

Cheers
  Colin