Issue with UTF-8 String while creating the Place Mark

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1.get the source code of the demo http://earth-api-
samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/balloon-feature.html

2.Replace the method call "placemark.setName('Placemark 1');" with "     
placemark.setName('లోకేష్');"

3.Test the page and the Placemark will appear without the title

What is the expected output or behavior? What do you see instead?

The Place mark should show the title in the Indian language of 
Telugu "లోకేష్"

Which plugin version are you using?
5.0.11655.6079

Which browsers and operating systems are affected?
All

Please provide any additional information (code snippets/links) below.

     placemark.setName('Placemark 1'); --WORKING
     placemark.setName('లోకేష్'); --NOT WORKING

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lokesh.p...@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 9:49

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Hi, have you tried the suggestions at:

http://groups.google.com/group/google-earth-browser-plugin/browse_thread/thread/
b71f622a886199c4/
?

Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 9 Jun 2009 at 6:07

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Yes, I have tried the suggestions and now I can confirm that it is either a bug 
or 
missing feature in both Google Earth Client and Google Earth Plug in.  I have 
clearly explained the issue in the same post at :

http://groups.google.com/group/google-earth-browser-
plugin/browse_thread/thread/b71f622a886199c4/

Original comment by lokesh.p...@gmail.com on 10 Jun 2009 at 6:56

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Works fine on Mac OS X, running Safari 4. I'll test on Windows tomorrow.

Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2009 at 6:14

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Actually, on Mac OS X these all I see are empty boxes in both the web browser
<textarea> and Google Earth. On Windows the characters show up in the 
<textarea> but
not in the plugin.

Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 11 Jun 2009 at 5:29

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What do you mean by <textarea>?.  I hope you maean, balloon which pops up when 
the 
Placemark is clicked. If so you are right, that is the actual issue.

Hope Google will fix it sometime soon.

Thanks,
Lokesh

Original comment by lokesh.p...@gmail.com on 12 Jun 2009 at 3:33

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Yes, this is a general Google Earth bug... i.e. paste this into Google Earth, 
same 
problem will occur:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">
  <Placemark>
    <name>లోకేష్</name>
    <Point>
      <coordinates>-122,37</coordinates>
    </Point>
  </Placemark>
</kml>

Filed internally.

Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2009 at 11:35

• Added labels: Internal-1924930

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Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2009 at 12:04

• Added labels: Component-Plugin

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Bulk edit.

Original comment by api.roman.public@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2009 at 1:02

• Changed state: Confirmed

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Thanks for filing this bug.

Thanks,
Lokesh.

Original comment by lokesh.p...@gmail.com on 22 Aug 2009 at 6:38

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Original comment by jli...@google.com on 6 Jun 2013 at 9:14

• Changed state: Fixed