[mapserver-users] The right character enconding for mapfile

Tue Nov 3 05:06:16 PST 2015

Hi,

I have noticed that the encoding must be "UTF-8 without BOM". Notepad++ has en encoding alternative "UTF-8" which seems to write "UTF-8 with BOM" and because of Byte order marker Mapserver does not accept such mapfiles. I am not sure if this is something to mention in the documentation or if it is rather a bug. Similar issue in GDAL was fixed by https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/changeset/30994

Migration guide is
http://mapserver.org/MIGRATION_GUIDE.html
Corresponding RCF is  http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-103.html 

-Jukka Rahkonen-

thomas Bonfort wrote:

From mapserver 7.0 onwards, *always* encode your mapfile as UTF8. For more info read the migration guide and corresponding RFC.

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thomas

On 3 November 2015 at 13:27, Andrea Peri <aperi2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the question, but I'm not skill on character enconding questions.
>
> My dubt is to understand what should be the right character encoding 
> for the mapfile ?
>
> The question born from the notice that the response at the 
> getcapabilities request return an xml where is declared:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
>
> But the containing seem don't be a real utf-8.
>
> I don't understand if should be the mapserver to convert into UTF-8 or 
> should be the user to write a regular UTF-8 mapfile.
>
> Thx,
>
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