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<p class=MsoNormal>I am trying to load OpenStreetMap and GDAM data from the
shapefiles that were posted on the network. Some of the work file but
those with special characters often fail or in came cases the application
crashes.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The error message get is - Unable to convert
field value "<some osm name>" to UTF-8: iconv reports
"Illegal byte sequence"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>DBF file character encoding is set to WINDOWS-1252 which if
I am reading correctly should support Unicode characters.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Based on comments posted on the net I also tried setting
encoding to “Latin1”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any thoughts on how to correct this problem would be greatly
appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am using PostgreSql version 8.8 and PostGis 1.5.1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Bruce<o:p></o:p></p>
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