[GRASS-user] Character encoding problem

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> > [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?

Under what circumstances? We probably don't want to issue a warning if
the encoding isn't being set explicitly by the user, or if the
encoding is set to ISO-8859-1 or US-ASCII (and a string comparison
won't handle aliases).

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>