[gdal-dev] WindowsLatin1 encoded strings

[MITANCHEY Richard - CEREMA/DTecTV/ESI/GNSI]

Hi,
I need to get WindowsLatin1 encoded Strings (mapinfo .tab files), and I 
cannot really convert original data to UTF-8 before...
I'm using OGR (GDAL Java binding) with GetFieldAsString() but string 
lengths (and chars within) are most of the times incorrect
Is there any way to specify read and write string encodings ?
Should it be a pb of GDAL Java binding ?
TIA for your answers
Richard