Re: [gtoad-devel] German characters in gpx output

[Thomas S. <th...@st...>]

On 2004-10-05, at 05.24, Peter Jonas wrote:

> I assume that geotoad translates the original characters into unicode 
> characters (&#xxx;) which cannot be read by gpxsonar.
> If this is right, it would be nice if geotoad could code the special 
> characters in the same way as a original Pocket Query would do.

I'm not currently an active member (haven't done much geocaching 
lately). If someone could post what a GPX file should look like that 
has umlauts, that would help immensely. I'm pretty sure this worked in 
previous versions. I presume you are using GT 3.7.5. If so, this commit 
to geocache/search.rb may have broken it:

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r459 | tstrombe | 2004-09-20 19:25:21 -0500 (Mon, 20 Sep 2004) | 1 line

Fix for the new geocaching search page layout. CGI.unescapeHTML the 
geocache name to prevent " names from showing up. This may break 
international characters, but hopefully not.
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I don't know what query you were trying to run, but I think changing 
this line in geocache/search.rb from:

                     name = CGI.unescapeHTML(name);

to:

                     name.gsub!(""", "\"");

Should fix the problem. Let me know if it does, and I'll be sure to get 
this into 3.7.6.


/ Thomas