Re: [OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] Latest planet.osm contains incorrect data

Ralf Zimmermann wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> I was away a few days. I now checked the latest planet.osm from 05-Dec. 
> It seems to have encoding issues again. For example "München" (Munich) 
> is not correct anymore. In the planet.osm from 28-Nov, this entry was 
> still ok. The modification date of the node is the same, so in terms of 
> encoding I guess the export script is broken again!
> 
> I checked a few streets with German Umlauts in the street name and they 
> all are corrupted as well!
> 
> Were there any changes to the export script for planet.osm? If so, 
> please check it for encoding issues.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ralf
> Munich/Germany

as I've been saying for a while, it appears the DB contains UTF8 and 
Latin1 data mixed together in the tags fields.