On 13-02-27 12:14:31 CET, Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
Hi
While reading the code, I stumbled upon code such as if ("unicode".equals(charset)) in src/uk/me/parabola/imgfmt/app/labelenc/CodeFunctions.java.
That was all just experimenting, right at the beginning before we had any proper i18n support at all.
So, no unicode map support so far?
I guess what I actually want to ask: since we’ve seen that newer devices have a rich character repertoire containing latin based, greek, cyrillic and arabic, I wonder whether it is only possible to access them via code pages, limiting us to a subset every time. Do you know whether there’s unicode support in recent devices?
A google search confirms that they can eg: https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?19806-Is-Mapsource-compatible-with-...
How embarrassing, I should have done that myself before. On the other hand, I Googled for the Garmin character repertoires before starting to test and ask and came up empty handed, so I have a lame excuse. ;-) The term “Unicode maps” is also to be found in some Garmin Mapinstall release notes (addition of support for it). GPSMapEdit release notes also mention unicode, but unfortunately: “Note: UTF-8 is not supported by cgpsmapper and Garmin IMG format” What I haven’t been able to find out after over an hour of searching: Is it publicly known how such “unicode maps” are encoded, or is this a mystery hidden in encrypted maps? rj