Re: [Maposmatic-dev] Missing city name in result files!

[Jeroen van Rijn]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 07:51, Maxime Petazzoni
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't think there's really something we can do about this though,
> because we can't give links containing these characters (the URLs can't
> contains non-ascii characters just yet, IIRC).

http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/الصفحة_الرئيسية would suggest different.

> If you have a idea of how we could transliterate the map names into ...
> something, we're interested and will try to implement it!

I'd start with encoding them, for example using punycode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

http://pydoc.org/2.5.1/encodings.punycode.html

Regards,
Jeroen.

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