ups - I meant to state only the following: "Note that neither very old
devices (introduced up to around ~2011) - nor newer devices (introduced
~late 2015 or newer) can show unicode maps."

On 16 September 2017 at 07:57, Gerd Petermann <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Felix,
>
> I understand that tools like this exists, but I don't think that we should
> add it to the documentation of mkgmap.
> I would not even dare to click on a link for it because of the higher risk
> to download some malware.
>
> Gerd
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <[email protected]> im Auftrag von
> Felix Hartmann <[email protected]>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. September 2017 10:50:55
> An: Development list for mkgmap
> Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recent Garmin Firmware "cannot authenticate
> maps" when they are unicode
>
> I would rephrase it to "Note that neither very old devices (introduced up
> to around ~2011) - nor newer devices (introduced ~late 2015 or newer) can
> show unicode maps. Newer devices can however mostly be made compatible by
> using grey market firmware. (actually the firmwares that are designed to
> circumvent new garmin devices to show "pirated" copyrighted garmin maps
> will also mean that those devices will be able to show mkgmap unicode maps.
> In my opinion in Europe it would be legal to use such firmware if you
> simply want to show OSM based mkgmap created "non pirated" maps - while
> illegal if used to show "pirated" garmin maps.
> The only new devices for which this firmware is not available/ or better
> the firmware patcher for this does not work are some of the garmin smart
> devices like the Fenix watches and I'm not sure if it works on all
> automotive devices like Zumo or Nuvi.
>
> So maybe in this firmware patcher some clues could be found (or better if
> the author would release the relevant clues/sourcecode on request)?
>
> (just google garmin firmware patcher to find it)
>
> On 14 September 2017 at 07:47, Gerd Petermann <
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The documentation and help already contains this
> --unicode
>         This is equivalent to --code-page=65001. Note that
>         some devices don't support unicode maps produced by mkgmap.
>
> I added the hint while working on the optimize-index branch, it is in the
> branch since r3968.
> Please suggest improvements if this is not enough.
>
> Gerd
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: mkgmap-dev <[email protected]<mailto:mkgmap-
> [email protected]>> im Auftrag von Felix Hartmann <
> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. September 2017 00:14:34
> An: Development list for mkgmap
> Betreff: Re: [mkgmap-dev] Recent Garmin Firmware "cannot authenticate
> maps" when they are unicode
>
> this can go into documentation not the compile process itself I think. The
> warning should be for real warnings that happen because of bugs/problems.
>
> On 13 September 2017 at 21:57, franco_bez <[email protected]<mailto:fran
> [email protected]><mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
> One last thought:
>
> maybe it's not a bug in mkgmap, and maybe there is no way to fix this on
> our
> side.
> But in any way there will be more and more people affected as the number of
> new Garmin devices increases.
>
> So we should issue a warning message when maps are built with the unicode
> option.
>
> Something like:
>
> "The use of the option unicode will cause problems on recent Garmin
> devices.
> Consider using another encoding instead."
>
> What do You think ?
>
> Ciao,
>  Franco
>
>
>
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