[mapguide-users] Cyrillic alphabet/Encoding problem

[Traian Stanev]

Yes, SHP files and encodings is trouble... You can try to force the encoding to UTF-8 by adding a .CPG file alongside your SHP file (with the same filename as the .SHP). The contents should be a single line of text, saying "UTF-8", without the quotes. This will hint the FDO provider for SHP files to use that encoding. No guarantee that would fix it though...

Another thing you can do to identify the cause of the problem is try to use a constant Cyrillic string as a label for your geometry. If that shows up fine in MapGuide, then the problem is upstream (in the FDO provider), otherwise it's a problem in the MapGuide code.


Traian



> -----Original Message-----
> From: mapguide-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-users-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of milko_velichkov
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 1:32 AM
> To: mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: RE: [mapguide-users] Cyrillic alphabet/Encoding problem
>
>
> Under "Selection" tab, when I have attribute information in Cyrillic
> from a
> SHP data source, they appear like маймуница :). Same with all labels
> within
> the Map window. Encoding used by default is UTF-8 (I don't have an idea
> how
> to change it within the MapGuide environment).
>
> Milko
>
>
> Traian Stanev wrote:
> >
> >
> > What exactly is the problem you are seeing? Also, are you using
> Unicode or
> > some other encoding for the Cyrillic in your data source?
> >
> >
> > Traian
> >
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of milko_velichkov
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 4:26 AM
> >> To: mapguide-users at lists.osgeo.org
> >> Subject: [mapguide-users] Cyrillic alphabet/Encoding problem
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >> Did anyone else has a problem with the visualization/encoding of
> >> Cyrillic
> >> letters when selecting features from within MapGuide?
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