Yeah, the problem is definitely the DBF file, and the fact that they get
written in lots of different charsets. I have a patch that I need to
apply, that was on 2.0.x of GeoTools but never made it over, that lets
users specify an alternate dbf in the factory, when you're making the
new shapefi
We received an e-mail on the JPP Developer mailing list a few days
ago. The post basically involved a couple users in Eastern Europe that
were having problems reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles with
attribute values that used characters from Eastern European character
sets.
I know that GeoTools a
