[gdal-dev] RFC 23: OGR Unicode

[Daniel Morissette]

This RFC looks like a good plan to me... for what I know of dealing with 
encodings.

Daniel


Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm looking to fix reading of NVARCHAR fields via ODBC and in an effort
> to solve this problem in a reasonably general way, I am proposing to
> add some mechanisms for encoding changes in CPLString.  This is essentially
> taking a small bite out of the things that RFC 5 was attempting to address
> to keep things managable.
> 
>   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc23_ogr_unicode
> 
> I'm *not* really interested in expanding the scope a lot at this point, but
> I would appreciate feedback on the proposed approach before I bring it to a
> vote.  Note also that my approach to CPLString changes is somewhat 
> different
> than Andrey proposed in RFC 5.  In particular, I do not require that 
> CPLStrings
> always be UTF-8.  Also I use iconv() style names for encodings instead 
> of an
> enumerated list.
> 
> Best regards,


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