Will it make sense to set 0 as a default? In the current case some software (ArcGIS) does not override correct CPG setting with obviously incorrect 1252 from the header.
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Ramsey <pram...@opengeo.org> wrote: > And that DBF field dates from the Time Before UTF-8, so there won't be > a "UTF8" number to put in it, in any event. DBF files with UTF in > them (OSM!) are scary scary scary (for example, should your code for > reading a CHAR(8) field in DBF expect 8 bytes, or 8 characters? yay!) > It would be nice to support transcoding down to the code pages that > *are* supported in that field, I suppose. I wonder how much software > actually supports it. > > P. > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland > <mark.cave-ayl...@siriusit.co.uk> wrote: > > Denis Rykov wrote: > > > >> I don't quite understand why pgsql2shp is writing this encoding to our > >> shapes, our database is in UTF-8 and we never use win1252 > > > > Well pgsql2shp has never contained any code to set the encoding field > > (mainly because until recently the version of shapelib included with > PostGIS > > didn't support the encoding field), so I guess WIN1252 must be the > shapelib > > default. > > > > > > ATB, > > > > Mark. > > > > -- > > Mark Cave-Ayland - Senior Technical Architect > > PostgreSQL - PostGIS > > Sirius Corporation plc - control through freedom > > http://www.siriusit.co.uk > > t: +44 870 608 0063 > > > > Sirius Labs: http://www.siriusit.co.uk/labs > > _______________________________________________ > > postgis-users mailing list > > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users > > > _______________________________________________ > postgis-users mailing list > postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net > http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >
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