[mapserver-users] GetFeatureInfo XML result is not encoded at all

[Guillaume Sueur]

I don't think they can even imagine what a character set is. I assume 
it's LATIN1, and get some bad results some times.

Too bad...

Guillaume


Daniel Morissette a écrit :
> Guillaume Sueur wrote:
>> That's not so easy when you don't know the encoding of the data used. 
>> In a current project I have, people upload their data to be published 
>> via WMS.
>> Would it be a big deal to add conversion of the result on the fly ?
>>
> 
> In which format do they upload their data? Chances are that if you don't 
> know the encoding then MapServer would have no way to guess it either. 
> For instance, I most DBF files do not come with any encoding information 
> so you need to guess what it is.
> 
> Assuming we have a way to determine the encoding of the data, or that we 
> add some parameter at the layer level to let the admin specify it, then 
> yes it would be technically possible to implement encoding conversions 
> in MapServer. We already do that in the case of LABELs for instance (see 
> the LABEL ENCODING param).
> 
> Daniel