Hello,

I'm trying to convert bunch of MapInfo TAB files from Russian customer to 
PostGIS using ogr2ogr. Original TAB files are in WindowsCyrillic encoding, and 
they should be somehow be converted to UTF-8. For some reason, it seems that 
ogr2ogr messes up encoding during conversion. If I try to convert TAB to 
Shapefile and from Shapefile to PostGIS end result is complete mess. Direct 
conversion from TAB to PostGIS seems to fail due to encoding problems (I have 
tried to set PGCLIENTENCODING, but end result doesn't seem to change).

I have managed to create correct Cyrillic output by running ogr2ogr to convert 
TAB to shape, and then creating SQL from shape and then running that SQL 
through perl-script which fixes the encoding, but as this includes two-bit 
characters to columns it causes all field length constraints to break.

Does anyone know way how to deal with these encoding issues in a way that 
doesn't require us to use any external scripts to create correct output?

-Tuomas Koivusalo


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