Mkgmap support Chinese??

haha · 2008-02-25T08:49:50.000Z

Hi,

Just found this cool tool, and I tried to use josm created a .osm file (POI in Chinese) and compileed with mkgmap. And the final img file contain “???” for the POI name (in Chinese), I also tried to add --utf8, however still the same. Just wondering if mkgmap support Chinese or not? Or is there any way to do this?

I tried a few more methods:
Adding

–charset=cp-1200

or

–charset=cp-936
However still got the unrecognized name for name using Chinese.

Just want to check if Chinese support in Mkgmap?

Thanks

vgps · 2008-03-06T19:48:32.000Z

MkgMap generates map in garmin format. I don’t think garmin is supporting unicode. They have special character set for each language.

emj · 2008-03-06T20:35:56.000Z

Contact Steve Ratcliff and ask him… There is code to handle that but maybe Chinese is special, with multi byte characters and all that.