Re: [Geotools-devel] backporting "[GEOT-2972] Character set from CPG files" to 25.x

2021-04-15 Thread Andrea Aime
No objections to a backport. About the default, the change in behavior could go both ways (help some, create troubles for others). I'd propose a compromise: keep it on by default, but allow to switch the default using a system variable. If someone has a server with lots of shapefiles, and the new b

[Geotools-devel] backporting "[GEOT-2972] Character set from CPG files" to 25.x

2021-04-13 Thread Mark Prins
Hi all, Dmitriy Fedorov added some code to try and "autodetect" the shapefile codepage from the CPG sidecar in https://github.com/geotools/geotools/pull/3405 I would like to backport this to 25.x and 24.x (preferably before 24.3 is released) It is a switch that turns "on" a small change in