[fdo-users] FDO OGR 3.6+3.7 and UTF-8 problem

[Traian Stanev]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fdo-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:fdo-users-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Frank Warmerdam
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 12:35 PM
> To: FDO Users Mail List
> Subject: Re: [fdo-users] FDO OGR 3.6+3.7 and UTF-8 problem
> 
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Traian Stanev <traian.stanev at autodesk.com>
> wrote:
> > I had no idea about the existence of the capability Frank mentions and
> > clearly checking that would be the right fix. But, I would argue that
> > OGR should return all strings in UTF-8 instead of having the user
> > check the capability. ;-)
> 
> Traian,
> 
> I agree it would be nice if all strings were in UTF8 but from some providers it is
> essentially impossible to know the encoding from the file itself (ie. csv).  I might
> suggest you always assume UTF8 since not all UTF returning drivers necessarily
> set the capability properly.  It was mostly intended to make it easy to know that
> some drivers are certainly returning utf8.
> 

Hi Frank,

Yes, I suspected that was the case. The provider does default to utf8 now. It's easy enough to compile it the other way, so it's not a big problem. Would be nice and not too difficult to allow for a runtime setting instead (e.g. flag in the FDO connection string), but I'll only go for it if there is enough demand.

Traian


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