2008/2/13 Stefan Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm just trying to say that you gave here an accidental freedom to keynames. > While for values UTF-8 is allright, which means you can give as exotic > street names as you wish. The consequences of this are problematic for all > those more database schema oriented applications. It's about databases, XML > and other formats outside the "OSM farm" you described which don't rely on > this fancy general meta schema, and it goes like this:
Do what most programs do: if you don't recognise the key, ignore it. Think HTML. If you do recognise the key then it's irrevelent if it's UTF-8 or not. Mapnik loads stuff into a database and just ignores everything it doesn't understand. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
