[Gdal-dev] Re: OGR - Character Encodings

Charlie Savage cfis at interserv.com
Fri Oct 14 20:51:28 EDT 2005


> 
> Good point.  But what happens to "normal" LATIN1 characters in the
> 128 to 255 range with UTF8?

They are represented by 2 bytes, not 1 byte.  For more info see 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF8.

Thus, I'll set Postgresql to ISO-8859-1 for now, but that should 
probably be changed in the future.

Charlie





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