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

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#689: NaturalEarth Character Encodings
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 Reporter:  darkblueb  |       Owner:  darkblueb                        
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                              
 Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  OSGeoLive6.5                     
Component:  LiveDVD    |    Keywords:  4.5beta3, natural earth, upstream
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Comment(by darkblueb):

 ## Live 6.5a4
 locale en_US.iso88591 is now added at build time
 natural_earth2 database in utf8 encoding is present

 natural_earth2 is built in Live6.5a4 by importing selected 8859-1 shp
 files into a utf8 database using  shp2pgsql -W  LATIN1 . (see
 load_gisdata.sh)  The presence of the en_US.iso88591 locale means that a
 LATIN1 encoded postgres database may be created, if desirable.

 on first inspection, Latin1 characters in natural_earth2 appear to be
 handled well. However, some characters such as s-caron appear to be
 present in the NaturalEarth2 data, but are defined in ISO 8859-2 (Latin2),
 and may not be handled correctly at present. Non-european cases, such as
 romanized Vietnamese, are yet to be investigated.

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