On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:22:24AM +0100, Andreas Forø Tollefsen wrote: > I have no idea why it worked, but importing the shapefile to the new > database using QGIS and Spit worked without problems. > Could it be that QGIS corrects any bad digits in the dbf file before > transmitting?
Could be you were using an older version of shp2pgsql, which defaulted to WINDOWS something for the encoding rather than UTF8 ? --strk; () Free GIS & Flash consultant/developer /\ http://strk.keybit.net/services.html _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users