[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 nvkelso):

 Cool!

 See earlier comment about iso8859-1 not being a perfect match for
 Windows-1252.

 The European cases will work themselves out (eg s-caron) over time and may
 be other funk. However, the romanized Vietnamese doesn't show up well in
 Windows-1252 in the first place. This only affects the admin-1 (states,
 provinces) in 2.0 (may change in future versions).

 Now that OGR has support for reading GeoDB files, it would be be better to
 import from the GeoDB original which is in UTF-8 into the PostGIS db
 directly rather than using the SHP which looses the details on conversion.

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