[postgis-users] Win32 testers required: shp2pgsql with -Wencodingswitch

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Mark Cave-Ayland
> Sent: 10 April 2006 23:22
> To: 'Randy George'; 'PostGIS Users Discussion'
> Subject: RE: [postgis-users] Win32 testers required: shp2pgsql with -
> Wencodingswitch

(I wrote)

> Since this is reproducible on Linux as well as Windows, I'm inclined to
say
> that it's an encoding mismatch rather than a Windows build error. However
> I
> notice in your original post that you managed to use a Java program to do
> the conversion for you. Unfortunately I'm not the world's greatest expert
> when it comes to locales and encodings - can anyone else help out here?

I've had a closer look at the source DBF file using hexdump (and added a few
debugging statements) and AFAICT looking at the accented characters the
shapefiles are not encoded in CP1252 but in CP437. So the following should
work for you:

"E:\Program Files\PostgreSQL\8.1\bin\shp2pgsql.exe" -W CP437 -D 
 -s4269 -k -d D:\Demographics\co_county\co72_d00_shp\co72_d00.shp 
 public.pr_county > test.sql

I'm still having some trouble trying to get the data to display correctly in
psql.exe; for example if I do:

	Start -> Run -> cmd.exe
	chcp 1252
	psql -d test
	set client_encoding to win1252;
	select "NAME" from pr_county;

...then psql.exe still doesn't display it correctly. However, pgAdmin III
handles it without any problems so my guess is that this is a psql.exe
specific problem - you'd probably have to bring this up on the pgsql lists
if want to find out the specifics.


Kind regards,

Mark.

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