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

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

Russell Teague wrote:

> Still having trouble with the other &#xxxx; characters as shown below.
>  The first is a single quote, the second is a dash.
> 
> GPX Description field:
> Scott’s Mill Puzzle – Apex Triple Threat by GeoCyclist
> (adopted by horsegeeks), Unknown Cache (3.0/1.5)
> 
> I'm now trying to find out where the &#xxxx characters are first translated.

There is some awful code to generate the &#xxxx characters within 
output.rb, named makeXML(). In order for the document to be XML valid, 
and for processors to handle it, I needed to convert the high ascii 
characters to this form.

The question that I haven't seen answered yet (should be easy enough) is 
  what do we have to do to take the umlauts from the page format and 
translate them into the way the GPX files from GC.com do. I'm working 
long hours on a project at work this week, so I don't have a chance to 
examine the issue any closer.

Good luck!

/ Thomas