GeoNames Forum

Hi,

Is that possible to get the "name_startsWith" to retur the resaults acording to the "lang" param?

Ex. If I search for Rødekro with the "name_startsWith" and "lang=da" it returns Rodekro, but if I use "q" and "lang=da" it returns Rødekro.

Thx, Henrik

It would be very confusing to return the main name for the language. The startsWith service therefore returns the name that corresponds to the 'startsWith' string.

Best

Marc

Hi,

If I use this query:
http://ws.geonames.org/search?q=R%C3%B8dekro&maxRows=5&lang=da where the url is encoded in UTF8 it will return Rødekro

But if I use this:
http://ws.geonames.org/search?name_startsWith=R%C3%B8dekro&maxRows=5&lang=da
also encoded in UTF8. It will return Rodekro where I would exepect the vowel "ø" instead of the first "o".

How can that be?

you are right, there was a bug with the treating of an ascii conversion.

Marc

The bug has been fixed some time ago.

Marc