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.
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? Marko