So I have tracked this down to the fact that the PRJ files that I have been given to use have a BOM of 0xEF 0xBB 0xBF for the first three bytes of the file.
When I use the shapefiles that have these byte order markers the Layer class method getSpatialRef() (java JNI bindings) returns null. I am guessing that the PRJ file is being opened in binary mode instead of text mode possibly? Regardless, is there any setting I can make to coerce the file opener/reader into ignoring the BOM when grabbing the WKT from the PRJ file? thanks -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Reading-shapefile-PRJ-failing-tp5150778.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
