Hi, I have some questions regarding the "new" multilingual interface and encoding.
The documentation says the default character encoding is UTF-8. This is defined through defCharset parameter in config.ini I suppose (I can see it is only used in common.php for header building). First, for the map file, what if I have DESCRIPTION or CLASS names in some other encoding? If I understand correctly, I can use map2unicode=1. But this causes using utf8_encode function and this function encodes the string to UTF-8 but it assumes the input string is in latin1 (ISO8859-1). So if my map file is using the encoding different from ISO-8859-1, this will not work correctly? For example we are using ISO-8859-2 or win-1250 encodings. What is the best way to correctly display my DESCRIPTION and CLASS names if they contain some special Croatian characters? I suppose I can't edit map file using UTF-8 encoding? Second, for query results, is the LAYER_ENCODING metadata parameter somehow related to label ENCODING parameter in mapfile? Third, what if I want to use some other defCharset? What is the best way to go? At this moment I have an older pmapper version that I had to modify for correctly work with my data (I a displaying data on HTML page in ISO-8859-2, but my dbf shape files have data in WIN-1250). What do you suggest? I think it would be the best to use UTF-8 for HTML displaying, with LAYER_ENCODING for correct querying....so only thing left to do is displaying some strings with special characters from the map file... thanks very much dejan
