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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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’t be written into the
file correctly, and my system locale is English(US), the exportation failed, because
Provider can’t store correct attribute name in the DBF file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>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…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Does anyone have suggestion to my situation?
Like how to work around it, or suggestion to my fixing?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Any suggestion is appreciated highly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Jimmy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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