[gdal-dev] RFC 5

[Frank Warmerdam]

Christopher Condit wrote:
> Can anyone shed any light on the status of RFC 5 ( or the status of UTF
> in the GDAL code base )?
> Looks as though the default internal encoding is not UTF-8...

Chris,

RFC 5 was not passed and currently the character encoding strings
passing through GDAL and OGR are undetermined.

It would be desirable to bring RFC 5 to life, and regularize this
situation.  But I think it will also be quite a bit job.

Best regards,
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