2009/8/14 Colin Marquardt <cmarq...@googlemail.com>: > 2009/8/13 Markus Lindholm <markus.lindh...@gmail.com>: >> 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
