<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 28, 2007 4:30 PM, Frank Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Daniel wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> Is it possible to get the charset info from a .TAB file with OGR in<br>> order to handle strings correctly. I couldn't find a way to do that<br>> using the API.
<br><br></div>Daniel,<br><br>Generally speaking OGR is not aware of charset/codepage issues.<br><br>I'm not sure if there is a special MITAB call for this info or not.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Unfortunatly MITAB does not expose this info either, in the
1.4 branch the property is private so i had to expose it myself by adding a getter method. In the trunk the property is atleast protected so that way i can get it without modifying the mitab code itself in the future.<br>
<br>Would it be possible to add some exposure of charset/codepage info to the API?<br><br>Best Ragards,<br> Daniel Bäck<br><br><br>