Hi Farouk,
I always use a workaround in order to convert a shp file with special
characters in its attribute table into UTF-8 encoding: I open the shp
file's dbf in some calculation software (e.g. OpenOffice) and save it as
an csv with encoding UTF-8. Then I open the csv and save it again as a
dbf under a new name. Then, I exchange the old dbf by the new one (don't
forget to change the name to, so it does match the shp file name) and
the shp file gets imported into the postgis database without problems.
There are hopefully more elegant solutions, but for shp-import of only a
few files, it's ok...
Regards,
Birgit.
Am 29.04.2011 10:32, schrieb farouk azzouhri:
Hello,
I converted an Access database (contains two fields X and Y) in a .shp
file it's ok, but when I wanted to convert the .shp into a postgis
database ( using the shp2pgsql-gui.exe ) it gives me the following
message:
Unable to convert field name to UTF-8 (iconv reports "Illegal byte
sequence"). Current encoding is "UTF-8". Try "latin1 " (Western
European), One Of The gold values at
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html Described.
Shapefile import failed.
how I'm going to do ??
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