Hello together,

I'm using makemap (r3696) on Windows (non UTF-8 locale) and on Linux (UTF-8 locale) and got very strange and platform dependant behaviour.
So I started to use the option -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 in the java call of mkgmap to have at least the same, still strange and different behaviour on both platforms.

Here the facts:

• I have special characters (Latin1) in the license file: äöüéè ...
• If I build a unicode map and the license file is properly encoded in Unicode, Basecamp shows at the end scrambled characters
• I'm able to get a unicode map with correct license info (no scrambled chars) only on Windows (non-utf8 environment) without calling mkgmap with -Dfile.encoding=utf-8 and some additional cheats
  
• If I use mkgmap to create a gmapsupp.img it again looks different, bit better but not good.

I know these facts are a bit unspecific, but I've really tested out quite a lot and no combination / tries did help to solve the problems. And before investing even more time and get completely lost I'll ask for help.

Therefore:
did I miss something essential or are the parameters --license-file and --copyright-file (I use the same file for both parameters) handled specially/different than other source files for mkgmap (no/different encoding support ?).

We never had any problems with utf8 encoded style files or typ source files, all went always very smooth as long as everything was utf-8...but with the license files I got stuck now.

Thanks in advance for hints / solutions / confirmations.
Cheers
Patrik