Re: [OSM-talk] Tibetan characters
2009/8/14 Colin Marquardt : > 2009/8/13 Markus Lindholm : >> I thought I'd spend some time on adding name:bo (i.e. in Tibetan) tags >> for places in Tibet. I was thinking of copy-pasting the place names >> from Wikipedia (guess that's ok), as my knowledge in Tibetan is just >> as limited as everybody else's. It's just that I can't find a way to >> enter Tibetan text. I tried Potlatch and Josm, but in both Tibetan >> characters just show up as blank squares. There's at least one name:bo >> tag in the database and it shows up ok in history and data views. >> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/244082116 > > I suppose neither Flash (Potlatch) nor Java (JOSM) have access to a > Tibetan font, so they display the square, as they are not using > fontconfig or equivalent which provides the fonts to the rest of your > system. > When you copy some Tibetan text from Wikipedia into JOSM, save the osm > file and look at it with an editor that knows Tibetan fonts, does it > look okay? > In that case, it should also be okay to upload the data. > Thanks. That worked quite well. Now Lhasa has a name:bo tag. Regards Markus ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
Re: [OSM-talk] Tibetan characters
2009/8/13 Markus Lindholm : > I thought I'd spend some time on adding name:bo (i.e. in Tibetan) tags > for places in Tibet. I was thinking of copy-pasting the place names > from Wikipedia (guess that's ok), as my knowledge in Tibetan is just > as limited as everybody else's. It's just that I can't find a way to > enter Tibetan text. I tried Potlatch and Josm, but in both Tibetan > characters just show up as blank squares. There's at least one name:bo > tag in the database and it shows up ok in history and data views. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/244082116 I suppose neither Flash (Potlatch) nor Java (JOSM) have access to a Tibetan font, so they display the square, as they are not using fontconfig or equivalent which provides the fonts to the rest of your system. When you copy some Tibetan text from Wikipedia into JOSM, save the osm file and look at it with an editor that knows Tibetan fonts, does it look okay? In that case, it should also be okay to upload the data. Cheers Colin ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
[OSM-talk] Tibetan characters
I thought I'd spend some time on adding name:bo (i.e. in Tibetan) tags for places in Tibet. I was thinking of copy-pasting the place names from Wikipedia (guess that's ok), as my knowledge in Tibetan is just as limited as everybody else's. It's just that I can't find a way to enter Tibetan text. I tried Potlatch and Josm, but in both Tibetan characters just show up as blank squares. There's at least one name:bo tag in the database and it shows up ok in history and data views. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/244082116 I can enter Chinese characters in Potlatch but not in Josm. I'm running Fedora 11, Java 1.6.0_14, Josm 1788 and Firefox 3.5.2 and Tibetan characters show up ok in firefox and on my command prompt. Any suggestions? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
