Can you hexedit it and see if it works better?
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Denis Rykov <ryk...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
