Latin1 in wkt name? What I remember was a reduced set of ascii chars. On Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 12:59 Even Rouault via PROJ, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > OGC GeoTIFF mostly formalizes the historical GeoTIFF 1.0 specification > from 1995, and UTF-8 at that time was still in its youth years. Not to be > mentioned that GeoTIFF was initially developed by NASA' JPL, so I assume > ASCII was good enough at that time for their purpose. As far as I can see > all EPSG CRS names as currently only use ASCII. It is true though that WKT > CRS potentially allows for more than ASCII for CRS name, but only in the > Latin1 character set. > > Anyway this would be more a topic for an issue at > https://github.com/opengeospatial/geotiff/issues . I've added a note to > the existing > https://github.com/opengeospatial/geotiff/issues/56#issuecomment-2039505940 > > Even > Le 05/04/2024 à 12:44, Mircea Neacsu via PROJ a écrit : > > Hello, > > I had to read a bit deeper the Geo TIFF 1.1 standard and I was quite > surprised to see that in doesn't allow any character representation outside > the 7-bit ASCII text. Am I missing something? > > In particular CitationGeoKeys that are mandatory in certain cases do not > allow for anything other than ASCII text. Seems a bit strange for an > international standard. > > -- > > Mircea Neacsu > > > > _______________________________________________ > PROJ mailing > [email protected]https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/proj > > -- http://www.spatialys.com > My software is free, but my time generally not. > > _______________________________________________ > PROJ mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/proj >
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