[Gdal-dev] ogr and utf-8 encoding

[uwe.schmitz at lverma.nrw.de]

Roger,
Frank,

> 
> My understanding is that no work on utf-8 or RFC-5 has been done yet.
> Currently there is no mechanism to set the code page for 
> shapefiles nor for
> identifying the code page from csv files.
> 
at least for shape-files it seems to be possible to
specify a code page. Please take a look at: 

http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=27345

and especially
http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=21106
http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techarticles.articleShow&d=26015

But I fear this is not widely used.

best wishes
uwe

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