[gdal-dev] ogr2ogr -f OCI fails on Windows

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Ivan Lucena <lucena_ivan <at> hotmail.com> writes:

> 
> Hi Martin,Here is a list of the issues that I am planning to fix on that
driver, once I have time, bur if you think they are important for you too we
can share the work. The first item you have already started but you might
think of adding that line to the session initialization:

Hi,

I have one more thing for the list:
6) Handle character encoding in some understandable way.

I have learned one exact way to save shapefiles into our Oracle so that the
Scandinavian characters äöåÄÖÅ are OK in the database:

a) Convert shapefiles into Spatialite
b) Set environment set NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
c) Convert data from Spatialite into Oracle

I have never had luck with direct conversion from shp into Oracle.

-Jukka Rahkonen-