[mapserver-users] Issues with Mapserver/PostGIS and Cyrilic characters

Daniel Morissette dmorissette at mapgears.com
Fri Apr 9 07:53:36 EDT 2010


Frode Wiseth Jørgensen wrote:
> 
> A Select statement in PostgreSQL with a WHERE statement involving cyrilic
> chararcters returns correct answer.
> 
> A Mapserver LAYER with at CLASS and EXPRESSION using the same cyrilic
> characters does not return a answer.
> This is the expression: EXPRESSION ('[navn]' = 'Призрен')
> 

Expressions from the mapfile are processed and/or passed directly to the 
database engine without any encoding conversion. Perhaps make sure your 
mapfile is saved using UTF-8 encoding (i.e. same encoding as the source 
data).

Daniel
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