[gdal-dev] Ogr2ogr does not support file name with non-ASCII character

maven apache apachemaven0 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 16:00:08 PST 2014


Hi:

Thanks for your reply.

But I wonder how do I know if the file name is utf8? Since not all of the
filename contain no-asci characters.

Thanks


2014/1/8 Dmitriy Baryshnikov <bishop.dev at gmail.com>

>  Hi,
>
> The GDAL utilities expected all input paths in UTF-8 encoding. If you want
> to use system native encoding you have to set GDAL_FILENAME_IS_UTF8
> environment variable to NO.
> http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/ConfigOptions#GDAL_FILENAME_IS_UTF8
>
> Best regards,
>     Dmitry
>
> 08.01.2014 4:03, maven apache пишет:
>
> Hi:
>
>  This is a cross post first post at
> http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/82142/ogr2ogr-does-not-support-file-name-with-non-ascii-character
>
>  Since I got no answer, then I think I may post it here, this is the
> original question:
>
>   I tried to use the following script to convert shapefile to mif:
>
> ogr2ogr -f "MapInfo File" D:\docs\arcgis_data\shp_mif\BOU.mif D:\docs\arcgis_data\shp\BOU.shp
>
>  it works.
>
> But I found that if the name of the shapefile has non-ASCII characters
> like this:
>
> D:\docs\arcgis_data\shp\臺北.shp
>
>  Then the covert will fail with message:
>
> Unable to open datasource `D:\docs\arcgis_data\shp\臺北.shp' with the following drivers
> ......
>
>  Any idea to fix it?
>
> Looking for replay.
>
>
>  Yang
>
> 2014.1.8
>
>
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