<span dir="ltr" id=":1cq">Will it make sense to set 0 as a default? In
the current case some software (ArcGIS) does not override correct CPG
setting with obviously incorrect 1252 from the header.</span><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Paul Ramsey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pramsey@opengeo.org">pramsey@opengeo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">And that DBF field dates from the Time Before UTF-8, so there won't be<br>
a "UTF8" number to put in it, in any event. DBF files with UTF in<br>
them (OSM!) are scary scary scary (for example, should your code for<br>
reading a CHAR(8) field in DBF expect 8 bytes, or 8 characters? yay!)<br>
It would be nice to support transcoding down to the code pages that<br>
*are* supported in that field, I suppose. I wonder how much software<br>
actually supports it.<br>
<br>
P.<br>
<br>
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mark Cave-Ayland<br>
<div class="im"><<a href="mailto:mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk">mark.cave-ayland@siriusit.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> Denis Rykov wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I don't quite understand why pgsql2shp is writing this encoding to our<br>
>> shapes, our database is in UTF-8 and we never use win1252<br>
><br>
> Well pgsql2shp has never contained any code to set the encoding field<br>
> (mainly because until recently the version of shapelib included with PostGIS<br>
> didn't support the encoding field), so I guess WIN1252 must be the shapelib<br>
> default.<br>
><br>
><br>
> ATB,<br>
><br>
> Mark.<br>
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