Hi I know it was quite a while back when you posted this, sorry. On 24/06/09 21:56, Marko Mäkelä wrote:
My friend, who owns a Garmin GPSMap 60CSx, notified me of a character set problem in a tile name of my map. I wasn't aware of the problem, because my Edge 705 does not display map tile names. The tile Etelä-Suomi (Southern Finland) appears as Etelä-Suomi, where the currency symbol ¤ is displayed as a black diamond. Other ä characters in the gmapsupp.img are encoded as the byte code 304 in octal notation.
Yes it just slaps in the string directly without translation. It appears from your example that it is being displayed as a latin1 character set. I don't know what controls that though; does it take the character set from the LBL section or is there something else. A safe first step would be to transliterate to ascii which works over the widest range of languages in mkgmap. ..Steve