Milo van der Linden wrote:
I ran in to exactly the same problem, getting the data in UTF-8 was an
absolute " must" in order to get the labels to show up right in a Flash
GIS client.
After searching the internet and contacting some technicians at MapInfo
UK, I found that the only solution was to create a postGIS database in
UTF-8 format; read the MapInfo data into the postGIS database with OGR
and correcting encoding errors by hand....
Err... if hacks are an option, then here is an untested hack that might
be a bit simpler:
1- Use ogr2ogr or MITAB's tab2tab program (http://mitab.maptools.org/)
to convert the tab dataset to .MIF/.MID
2- The TAB attributes are stored in the .MID file which is a regular
text file. You could use the iconv command-line utility (on Linux
anyway) to convert the encoding of attributes to UTF-8:
iconv –from-code=ISO-8859-1 –to-code=UTF-8 mydata.mid > mydata_utf8.mid
3- Copy mydata.mif to mydata_utf8.mif
4- Edit the mydata_utf8.mif to change the Charset line to whatever
MapInfo uses for UTF-8 (presumably "UTF-8")
5- Use ogr2ogr or tab2tab to convert mydata_utf8.mif + mydata_utf8.mid
to TAB format.
This process can easily be scripted in a .BAT or bash file to run on
multiple files.
Once again, I didn't test this, but I can't see why that would not work.
Daniel
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Daniel Morissette
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