On 03/09/11 17:00, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 04:02:38PM +0200, Rich wrote:
so it might be that the file has properly encoded characters, but the device does not properly display them ?
That is a possibility. Do the older Garmins (such as GPSMap 60 and Edge 605/705) support anything else than the ISO 8859-1 like CP1252? I think that I saw some hacked Russian firmware somewhere, with some 8-bit Cyrillic encoding support, I suppose.
no idea about older ones, but this specimen is etrex vista hcx
if i "manually" compare what they look like on the gps device and onscreen, result on gps device seems to match what i get if i look at cp1257 (or iso-8859-13) encoded text in a unicode terminal...
Do you mean UTF-8 interpreted as if it were cp1257 (multiple characters per non-ASCII character)? Anything non-UTF-8, non-ASCII interpreted as UTF-8 should show as � (U+FFFD).
echo -e '\xdb\xc2\xd2\xcf\xde\r'|recode cp1257..utf8 ŪĀŅĻŽ echo -e '\xdb\xc2\xd2\xcf\xde\r'|recode cp1252..utf8 ÛÂÒÏÞ
The former interprets the codes as CP1257 and the latter as CP1252. Did you see the latter on your GPS?
the latter seems like what i'm seeing on the device with --codepage=cp-1257
Marko -- Rich