Hello, I have a shapefile from which I don't really know the encoding. It might be latin1 or ISO-8559-5. The good thing is, when MapServer is accessing the shapefile, the labels are shown correct. QGis is also displaying everything fine.
But when I try to convert with shp2pgsql or ogr I get only garbage back. I tried different source encodings. Since I need the data to be in the database I'm now trying to find out where the problem is. I tried converting the data on different systems (Ubuntu, RedHat), with postgis/shp2pgsql from repository as well as self compiled. Same results. Also iconv and recode wasn't a help. As I said QGis is displaying everything fine it fails in converting the shapefile too. Opening the dbf in LibreOffice doesn't helped either. Finally my (odd) questions are: Why does MapServer do everything right? How is the encoding determined? Can I see somewhere which encoding is used by MapServer? Thanks in advance for any pointers. Lars _______________________________________________ mapserver-users mailing list mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-users