
hi. i'm terribly sorry if this is a silly question, but i've searched & asked around, but so far - failed to solve the problem. i'm trying to generate maps for garmin etrex vista hcx that would contain entities with diacritic symbols (more specifically, map of latvia). i've tried specifying several charsets (utf-8, iso-8859-13, cp-1257 and latin1), but with all of them symbols come out not as expected. with utf-8, cp- and iso- they are garbled in different ways, with latin1 they seem to be transcoded to basic characters. i tried mkgmap 1625 and 1846. any hints on how could i get a map on that device with proper diacritic characters ? ideally utf-8, as i might put maps crossing country borders on it, but at least latvian chars would be enough for the start :) while i'm here, i also tried lowercase option - it mostly worked except for labels on roads where all lowercase symbols seemed to be replaced by underscores. is that something that can be improved with mkgmap, or is it a quirk of the garmin device ? thanks in advance. -- Rich

while i'm here, i also tried lowercase option - it mostly worked except for labels on roads where all lowercase symbols seemed to be replaced by underscores. is that something that can be improved with mkgmap, or is it a quirk of the garmin device ?
Most Garmin units cannot display rotated lowercase letters. If the letters are drawn exact horizontal, e.g. for city names, they work, but all rotated lowercase letters are not displayed. This is not caused by mkgmap but by the device. Regards, Johann

On 03/02/11 22:07, Johann Gail wrote:
while i'm here, i also tried lowercase option - it mostly worked except for labels on roads where all lowercase symbols seemed to be replaced by underscores. is that something that can be improved with mkgmap, or is it a quirk of the garmin device ?
Most Garmin units cannot display rotated lowercase letters. If the letters are drawn exact horizontal, e.g. for city names, they work, but all rotated lowercase letters are not displayed. This is not caused by mkgmap but by the device.
thanks. i guess i should bug garmin a bit about that :)
Regards, Johann -- Rich
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