[gdal-dev] unicode support in GDAL

[Claudiu Cochior]

Hello everybody,

I have a question related to Unicode strings in GDAL

We are using GDAL 3.0.4 and at some point we would like to write to shapefile a string that contains Russian characters. To give you some context, we are in C++, we created a OGRFeature and we want to set a field to the string that contains the Russian characters. My machine is in English and the language for non-unicode programs is set to English. I didn't find in the GDAL doc a definitive answer if GDAL support Unicode strings for filed values. As a test I converted the System::String to UTF-8 but the shape file displays only ? for the characters. If I change the language for non-unicode programs to Russian then I can safely extract the ANSI string and give it to the SetField method and the result is OK.

So, does GDAL supports unicede field string values somehow?

Thanks,


Claudiu

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