[Gdal-dev] Shapelib and UNICODE

[David Garcia]

Hi,

We are using shapelib version 1.2.10 to import GIS data in our 
application. It works perfectly for English shapefiles but we we try to 
import a shapefile in Japanese (the DBF part) we get garbage. Looking at 
DBFReadStringAttribute and DBFWriteStringAttribute seems that shapelib 
can only support char* and not UNICODE strings.

My question is: the GDAL/OGR support for shapefiles uses the same 
library and, thus, have the same problem or is a different 
implementation and support UNICODE?

I can move to GDAL/OGR is this will solve the problem or I can try to 
hack the current shapelib version to include UNICODE support.

Thanks,

    David

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