[Featureserver] First steps

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:40:43PM +0200, Lehtonen, Mika wrote:
> Yep,
> that's probably the case. Isn't there any workaround in order to use 
> shps' other than utf-8 encoded? Or is it just better to use only utf-8 
> shps' or to use shp2pgsql to import them into PostGIS?

No workaround without changing code. I'd be willing to take a patch to
allow the specification of input encding -- the code to fix is line 216
of DataSource/OGR.py, where it has a hardcoded utf-8. Temporarily, you
could just change that to 'iso-8859-1' and see if that gets you any
further. 

REgards,
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Christopher Schmidt
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