[gdal-dev] Unicode support for GDAL/OGR

[Konstantin Baumann]

Hi!

 

There are two RFCs regarding the Unicode issues:

                RFC #5: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc5_unicode

                RFC #23: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/rfc23_ogr_unicode

 

RFC #23 seems to be adopted for GDAL 1.6. But to me it is not that clear,
which functions/methods do:

1.       always return/accept UTF-8 strings (e.g. OGRFeature::SetField(),
OGRFeature::GetFieldAsString() (or is this also based on the capability
flag), any other functions?, what about GetFieldName()?)

2.       can return/accept UTF-8 and also Ansi-encoded strings, based on the
capabilities of the underlying driver

3.       always return/accept Ansi-encoded strings (e.g. GDALOpen()?)

 

The state of RFC #5 is "in development". What does this mean? It has been
partially implemented, or it is currently in the implemented phase in a
separate branch, to merge back the changes into the main development branch
after a successful implementation?

 

Thanks for clarification,

    Kosta

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