[PROJ] Geo TIFF non-ASCII encodings

[Javier Jimenez Shaw]

Latin1 in wkt name? What I remember was a reduced set of ascii chars.

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024, 12:59 Even Rouault via PROJ, <proj at lists.osgeo.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> OGC GeoTIFF mostly formalizes the historical GeoTIFF 1.0 specification
> from 1995, and UTF-8 at that time was still in its youth years. Not to be
> mentioned that GeoTIFF was initially developed by NASA' JPL, so I assume
> ASCII was good enough at that time for their purpose. As far as I can see
> all EPSG CRS names as currently only use ASCII. It is true though that WKT
> CRS potentially allows for more than ASCII for CRS name, but only in the
> Latin1 character set.
>
> Anyway this would be more a topic for an issue at
> https://github.com/opengeospatial/geotiff/issues . I've added a note to
> the existing
> https://github.com/opengeospatial/geotiff/issues/56#issuecomment-2039505940
>
> Even
> Le 05/04/2024 à 12:44, Mircea Neacsu via PROJ a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> I had to read a bit deeper the Geo TIFF 1.1 standard and I was quite
> surprised to see that in doesn't allow any character representation outside
> the 7-bit ASCII text. Am I missing something?
>
> In particular CitationGeoKeys that are mandatory in certain cases do not
> allow for anything other than ASCII text. Seems a bit strange for an
> international standard.
>
> --
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> Mircea Neacsu
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