On 11-02-08 09:37 AM, Siegel Andreas wrote:
Hi.
Our mapserver-eniromnent entirely works in utf-8 (mapfiles, webserver,
postgres, ..) with one exception, that is, all of our shapefiles.
The shapfiles are created/updated in an Windows-environment by several,
external contributors.
Hence they are encoded in Wiindows-ANSI (cp: 1252).
If i do an GetFeatureInfo-Request on the attibutes of the shapefiles all
special characters ("umlauts") are garbled.
This is no wonder since the content of the shapefile-attributes must be
recoded to utf-8 prior to insertion in the template.html.
How can this be acomplished? I could not find anything useful in the
documentation or with google.
The short answer is that there is no mechanism in MapServer at the
moment to convert encoding of attributes displayed in a query template,
so your only options are to either change the encoding of the data files
to UTF-8, or change the template.html and its header to match the
encoding of the data. (The only place where MapServer supports encoding
conversion at the moment is in map labels, see the ENCODING keyword in
the LABEL docs.)
Of course this could be a nice enhancement to MapServer if there was a
group interested in funding it.
Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
http://www.mapgears.com/
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