MapInfo and UTF-8

[Frank Warmerdam]

Milo van der Linden wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I have some problem with my Mapserver WFS server. In the mapfile there 
> is a MapInfo tab that has special characters like ú and ç. MapInfo tabs 
> are encoded in WindowsLatin1.
> 
> I have set wfs_encoding is UTF-8 in the Map section of the Map File and 
> encoding = ISO-8859-1 for the MapInfo tab.
> 
> the GML output says <xml encoding=utf-8> like it should, but the 
> attributes returned for this particular MapInfo table are meshed up 
> because the special characters are not outputted correct.
> 
> Is there a check in MapServer WFS that tries to match the tables 
> encoding with the required GML encoding and converts characters where 
> needed?

Milo,

I'm not too sure whether MapServer tries to do character encoding changes.
I gather it may in some circumstances.  But OGR does not currently have
any concept of the character set of a datasource.  So OGR is certainly not
able to indicate to mapserver what the input encoding is which I would guess
means that no correct transliteration can be done.

Best regards,
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