[GRASS-dev] Re: [bug #5195] (grass) ps.map sets encoding to iso-8859-1

[Moritz Lennert]

Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> 
> ENCA [1] is a nice example of such a software. It never failed for me
> for ISO-8859-1/2 <-> UTF-8 automatic conversions.
> 

mlennert at geog-pc40:~$ enca test.psmap.utf8
enca: Cannot determine (or understand) your language preferences.
Please use `-L language', or `-L none' if your language is not supported
(only a few multibyte encodings can be recognized then).
Run `enca --list languages' to get a list of supported languages.

mlennert at geog-pc40:~$ enca --list languages
belarussian: CP1251 IBM866 ISO-8859-5 KOI8-UNI maccyr IBM855
   bulgarian: CP1251 ISO-8859-5 IBM855 maccyr ECMA-113
       czech: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 KEYBCS2 macce KOI-8_CS_2 CORK
    estonian: ISO-8859-4 CP1257 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
    croatian: CP1250 ISO-8859-2 IBM852 macce CORK
   hungarian: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce CORK
  lithuanian: CP1257 ISO-8859-4 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
     latvian: CP1257 ISO-8859-4 IBM775 ISO-8859-13 macce baltic
      polish: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce ISO-8859-13 ISO-8859-16 
baltic CORK
     russian: KOI8-R CP1251 ISO-8859-5 IBM866 maccyr
      slovak: CP1250 ISO-8859-2 IBM852 KEYBCS2 macce KOI-8_CS_2 CORK
     slovene: ISO-8859-2 CP1250 IBM852 macce CORK
   ukrainian: CP1251 IBM855 ISO-8859-5 CP1125 KOI8-U maccyr
     chinese: GBK BIG5 HZ
        none:

So this seems a bit limited for general use in GRASS...and shows how 
complicated it is to do it for just a few languages.

Moritz