thank Even, I convert the string in utf8 and then dump the feature to gdb, then there is no messy code, all chinese character is right. thank you very much ! -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/how-to-set-filegdb-encoding-tp5180296p5180303.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.