We received an e-mail on the JPP Developer mailing list a few days ago. The post basically involved a couple users in Eastern Europe that were having problems reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles with attribute values that used characters from Eastern European character sets.
I know that GeoTools and Deegree both maintain ESRI Shapefile drivers, and I thought I would ask how support for multiple character sets is handled. Is this totally dependent on the underlying JVM and computer operating system? Is there any code in place to warn the user or present error messages when the driver encounters attribute values with an unsupported character set? >From what I read in the DBF specification only ASCII characters are supported in a DBF file. So is the problem really other programs like OpenOffice that will write out DBF files with non-ASCII characters and not with our ESRI Shapefile drivers? Thanks for the help with this. The Sunburned Surveyor ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
