[Gdal-dev] RFC DRAFT: Unicode support in GDAL

[Mateusz Loskot]

Akio Takubo wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:23:31 +0200
> Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net> wrote:
>> Akio Takubo wrote:
>>
>> About a month ago I've just talked with a japanese developer 
>> about dbf's LDID, he had written it in his blog,
>>
>> I'm curious about it, could you give the blog URL?
> 
> Following URL is these.
> First one is Mr. Tetsushi Iida's article. He wrote that Shp2pgsql's iconv 
> support patch, which have been commited. 
> He found LDID information from ESRI's resources. It may be useful,
> if GDAL/OGR supports LDID info. 
> Other two aritcle is mine's.
> Sorry for all article (both Tetsushi's and mine) were written in Japanese.
> You may read them as English or other lang via traslation service...
> 
> http://d.hatena.ne.jp/hogeman/20060831#p1
> http://www.saruga-tondara.net/d/?date=20060901
> http://www.saruga-tondara.net/d/?date=20060902
> 
> Some topic of these article are...
> * How Arc* control encoding for shpfile? (something same as you did)
> * What value LDID is supported? (Where do we find LDID information?)
> * Should OSS product support LDID or not?
> * About better API with encoding.

Thank you for these URLs, however I'm not able to read them in
details :-)
I believe we can find LDID values quite easily.


Cheers
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net