Character encoding is a function of the format being used. But ensuring utf8 was vital for me, even with GPSBabel, maybe 5 years ago.Ĭheers and thanks for ever improving amazing software. Still, if GPSBabel is now smart enough to know that the ucsv input txt file I give it should truly be utf8 and the output (gpx, xml, html or kml) is truly (at file definition level) utf8 then I am relaxed. Sorry to be loquacious but I have had to fight html syntax checkers that write everything out encoded and editors that assume everything is (by default) ASCII. The reversal is to get new material into the basic Excel data bases. I sometimes reverse these processes as well to get to ucsv which must (obviously) be utf8 to preserve this information. Maybe I could encode all the characters but I like to directly edit the Chinese in my files later. Kml, html and xml all have “utf8” as standard encoding but at the time it was no guarantee that the actual file was such. When I first set up scripts to do this (maybe a few years ago) it was essential. I have to be careful with my editor (ultraedit) and wish to ensure GPSBabel knows input text (from eg a txt file) is utf8 and ensure output kml or gpx are utf8 so that characters are preserved. Because of the mixed character set I have big problems if the file comes out externally as NOT utf8. Then it gets converted into kml by GPSBabel (nice kml which is unusual) so that the description becomes the contents of waypoint “boxes” etc. I use excel to develop information and generate text files with “description” in html form and using some Chinese characters in a number of slots and I also encode some similar information for GPX files as well. > To unsubscribe, change list options, or see archives, visit: > Have I been asleep and not noticed some reason for these to disappear? –l also seems an unknown option for the list of encodings available. But I cannot seem to use –c for encodings. > I am using 1.5.2 which is not very old and works fine (very nicely) for On what format do you feel the need to override this? Having it overridden by the user caused big problems inĬomplexity internally and support issues. Character encoding is a function of theįormat being used.
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