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How can I get the Google Maps APIs to output a different character encoding?

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How can I get the Google Maps APIs to output a different character encoding?

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There are various situations where the Google Maps APIs accepts or produces textual output: Map controls, copyrights, geocodes, and driving directions. Since different languages may use different character sets, the Google Maps APIs allows you to specify the output character encoding by appending an ‘oe’ parameter to your script tag or query, or to specify the input character encoding by appending an ‘ie’ parameter. For example, you could force utf-8 encoding in map controls in the Google Maps Javascript API by modifying your script tag like so:

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