[Featureserver] type=OGR & encoding problem

Alexandre Dube adube at mapgears.com
Wed Aug 5 14:34:18 EDT 2009


Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>   I looked in the code source and it doesn't seem to support other 
>> character encodings than utf8.  Is this right ?  Or is this a known bug 
>> ?  Any workaround ?
>>     
>
> Not a bug, just a lack of functionality.
>
>      if isinstance(value, str): value = unicode(value, "utf-8")
>
> Change that line to iso-8859-1, and ou should be good. If youd like to make
> it configurable and send a patch, all the better.
>   

Understood.

Thanks Christopher,

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Alexandre Dubé
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