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 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev

