+astrandb Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 Accented characters are not treated properly in MobiPocket and EasyGPS. They look OK in the XML-file but are displayed as two-byte sequencies in Mobipocket and EasyGPS. Räksmörgås (a swedish prawn sandwich) is displayed as RäksmörgÃ¥s. This cache Vår Gård gets unredable when downloaded in XML format. I think it works with the old .loc format. /Åke S Link to comment
+leatherman Posted October 26, 2002 Share Posted October 26, 2002 My lap top and my PDA both get weird characters when viewing the printer friendly cache pages. I also get crazy symbols in the forum posts. I only view the forums with my laptop. Some times I have to decipher what word some one has typed. Seems to happen when a hyphen or an apostrophe is used. Preparation, the first law to survival. Mokita! Link to comment
+Crusso Posted October 27, 2002 Share Posted October 27, 2002 I mentioned this bug quite a while ago. Also some characters even cause my palm to lock up & Have to be reset. Wherever you go, there you are! Link to comment
+parkrrrr Posted October 28, 2002 Share Posted October 28, 2002 The problem is simple: the pocket queries generate their results in UTF-8, which is an encoding for Unicode characters that happens to cause characters in the range 0x80-0xFF (the Latin-1 extensions, which include accented characters and "smart quotes") to be represented as two characters. The character å is 0xE5 in ISO Latin-1 (what some folks call Codepage 1252.) In UTF-8, 0xE5 is represented as 0xC3 0xA5, which ends up looking like Ã¥ if you don't support UTF-8. PalmOS - and apparently EasyGPS as well - do not support UTF-8. It's possible to convert that range of UTF-8 characters back to CP 1252, but the only place it really makes sense to do that is before it gets sent out from geocaching.com. [This message was edited by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy on October 28, 2002 at 08:02 AM.] Link to comment
+astrandb Posted October 28, 2002 Author Share Posted October 28, 2002 Thanks The XML-style files can be converted by Notepad (Win 2000 or XP). But it is not possible to convert .prc-files with Notepad. Link to comment
+astrandb Posted October 28, 2002 Author Share Posted October 28, 2002 At the bottom of the posting my home city is not displayed properly. It should be Saltsö-Duvnäs. Things would be much easier if my language was not full of little dots and accents. /Åke S Link to comment
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