LATIN1, almost all the time, unless you have some very odd inputs, Peter... The trouble with encodings is that they are not really "guessable", nothing much distinguishes LATIN1 from LATIN2 except the output charmap, and you have to *look* at the output (and know the language) to see if you're right. Unfortunately, DBF does not include any header information about the encoding.
P On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Rushforth, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am wondering in jump code how one determines the character encoding of the > dbf file? I want to convert the data to UTF-8, which I believe will be > straightforward with java, but of course I need to identify what flavour of > input encoding I am dealing with, without too much guesswork! > > Thanks for any insight! > > Cheers > > Peter Rushforth > Technology Advisor / Conseiller technique > GeoConnections / GéoConnexions > 650-615 Booth St. / rue Booth > Ottawa ON K1A 0E9 > E-mail / Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Phone / Télephone: (613) 943-0784 > Fax / telecopier: (613) 947-2410 > _______________________________________________ > jump-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > _______________________________________________ jump-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users
