-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Keller schrieb: | GML/XML is *not* the issue, you know that: | It's almost any application outside OSM database. | It's about reusability and consistency!
Dear Stefan, I too strongly oppose to restrict the character-set. If you want consistency, you need national characters. Here UTF8 is the way to go. The simple fact is, that there are things that are to be in a map that only exist in certain regions and that have names containing non-ascii-characters. YOU need not use them but you have no authority to decide for the the people in that part of the world to not use them. Every application working with the OSM-database uses utf8 with no issues. That simply IS the default-character - -set to use for XML-data and for a reason. Most applications outside are converted to utf8 or pass it along nicely. Any application that only accepts us-characters is plainly broken and unfit for international use. If you want to use it anyway, you are free to convert it's input- and output-data. (Something as ugly as the punnycode used in dns will at least not destroy information you process.) | BTW: Restrincting tags in del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us> to ASCII did | not restrain the success of social bookmarking in any way IMHO. Well, it did. There are localized sites like that that allow any utf8-characters and they are used. Sorry pal but UTF8 is the right way to go and the very concept of national character-sets is dying everywhere because it is no longer fit for the multi-lingual world out there. This is a map of the world to be used for many different purposes, not a map of one country only. Marcus -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHsX5Pf1hPnk3Z0cQRAgV/AKDDOEKPGupW5MU0DhsHzPGad24/9QCg1AIS uudAuveFKyoyAKZ3SChtrZ8= =/w4i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
