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Diacritics bug in PDF export

12 Jul 2023
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Hi, I just tried PDF cue-sheet export, which looks great, but it does not export Czech (and probably other) local diacritics correctly, which I believe is quite important when navigating abroad where comprehending local names isn't the easiest. The PDF properties says the text is encoded in Windows-ANSI, which of course does not contain all local accents. In Czech that is č,ř,ě (+ others, which aren't that common). I do understand that using Unicode in PDFs is more complicated to implement than the current solution, but it may be worth it)

You can check with this route https://cycle.travel/map/journey/459434, the missing accents are replaced by "_"s. 

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Wed 12 Jul 2023, 12:45

Thanks for spotting that! I’ve just changed the font used by the cue sheets and that seems to have fixed it – let me know how you get on.