[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:  OSGeoLive7.0                
Component:  LiveDVD    |    Keywords:  7.0, natural earth, upstream
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Comment(by darkblueb):

 This issue primarily effects the "admin 1" layer in Natural Earth
 (generally equivalent to political state or province). I have received a
 working copy of the next revision of NaturalEarth admin1 in the form of a
 shapefile, whose .cpg file identifies it as encoded in '''UTF-8'''. Tools
 such as gdal/ogr correctly recognize this code page directly from the
 shapefile.

 A text field called '''name_local''' contains many admin1 titles in local
 script. The newer working table performs substantially better on Live 7.
 (note that greek and russian glyphs are what I would call "basic"
 international characters, with arabic and thai in a similar class, but
 found more rarely on machines in the West. All four of these work
 correctly right now on the Live.)

 One path forward is to replace the current admin1 table completely with
 the in-progress one I have now.. There are 42 fields in the current
 admin1, and 20 more than that in the new working copy, including temporary
 fields meant for development. The shipping admin1 has those kinds of
 development fields in it, also.  It is unclear who or what may depend on
 the exact contents of the admin1 fields.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/689#comment:18>
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