[postgis-users] re: shp2sql and UTF8 question on Windows

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-
> bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of Markus Schaber
> Sent: 26 January 2006 18:37
> To: PostGIS Users Discussion
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] re: shp2sql and UTF8 question on Windows

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> AFAIK, SJIS has a different symbol on the ascii position of \ so the
> backslashes output by shp2pgsql will not be recognized by postgresql,
> leading to strange effects.
> 
> Markus


Ahhh now I understand a bit better - my conversion was just from LATIN-1 to
UNICODE. So perhaps we do need to keep the iconv code in there for cases
like this...


Kind regards,

Mark.

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