[Gdal-dev] ogr and utf-8 encoding

[Stephen Woodbridge]

uwe.schmitz at lverma.nrw.de wrote:
> 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.

It would be nice if shapelib supported this with an interface to iconv. 
This could also be useful in shp2pgsql and pgsql2shp.

-Steve