[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #689: NaturalEarth Character Encodings

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#689: NaturalEarth Character Encodings
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 Reporter:  darkblueb  |       Owner:  live-demo@…              
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:                           
Component:  LiveDVD    |    Keywords:  4.5beta3                 
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 the NaturalEarth dataset is supplied as .shp files in Windows 1252
 encoding
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252

 a close ISO standard is
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859-1

 It is desirable to simply hold all tables in postgres as Unicode UTF-8
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

 Currently, the custom version of the NaturalEarth data set we use does a
 pretty good job of passing through character encodings.. but on inspection
 of Vietnamese and Slovenian Admin1 (state) names, there are some problem
 characters.. How well these characters are represented in other
 environments, from the .shp files, remains to be seen.

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