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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Does your SHP
dataset include a .cpg file? If no, you should create one. If yes, then it
should contain the Chinese codepage otherwise the multibyte conversion will
default to the machine&#8217;s locale.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>As for 11 characters
limit, there is nothing you can do since this comes from the DBF specification.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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fdo-internals-bounces@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:fdo-internals-bounces@lists.osgeo.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Xumeng Chen<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> fdo-internals@lists.osgeo.org<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kenny Jian; John Jiang; Hunter Chen<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [fdo-internals] SHP Provider: Writing Chinese Characters into
DBF Fails When the System locale is EN.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Recently, I am developing with SHP Provider to export an SHP
file. During testing my code, I found sometimes the attributes of the features
which contain Chinese Characters can&#8217;t be written into the file
correctly, and my system locale is English(US), the exportation failed, because
Provider can&#8217;t store correct attribute name in the DBF file.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>After looking into the SHP provider code, I find that when
provider wrote attribute into DBF file, the wide strings will be converted into
multi-bytes with the current locale codepage. For example, in my machine the
Chinese strings were converted with 1252 codepage which is not correct.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>After finding this, I tried to modify the source code and
hardcode the codepage to UTF-8, then the characters are written and recognized
correctly, and it seems that all right but there is a limitation. The max
length of attributes name in DBF is 11, if we convert all string with UTF-8,
only 5 letters are support when users in FR/DE locale&#8230;<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have suggestion to my situation? Like how to
work around it, or suggestion to my fixing?<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Any suggestion is appreciated highly.<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>

<p class=MsoNormal>Jimmy<o:p></o:p></p>

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