[GRASS-user] Character encoding problem

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> I can't comment on GDAL/OGR issues, but the display library will
> accept data in any encoding recognised by iconv[1] when using FreeType
> fonts. You just need to specify the encoding via the charset= option.

[ ... of d.font ]

> [1] Provided that GRASS was built to use iconv(); this is
> autodetected. Otherwise, text is treated as ISO-8859-1.

Could we issue a warning in this case that iconv support is
missing? To give the user a hint?

Markus