On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð
Bjarmason<[email protected]> wrote:
> The OSM protocol specifies that it accepts UTF-8 data, but in reality
> it only accepts the subset of UTF-8 that the XML parser being used
> doesn't barf on, see:
>
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-July/016165.html
>
> This issue surfaces e.g. here:
>
> http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2072
>
> So what subset should the API specify?

Umm, I put that in the thread you just linked to. See
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2009-July/016154.html

> If it's to accept full UTF-8
> all the tools that parse the XML will have to learn to deal with
> control characters.

Which, by definition, isn't possible in XML.

Cheers,
Andy

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