Handling special characters

[Bart van den Eijnden]

Hi,

I would suggest upgrading to Mapserver 4.4.

See:
http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=858

Best regards,
Bart

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> Hi List,
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> I have a mapserver that displays place names in different countries, and I
> need to show the special Latin characters, for example La Cigüeña,
> Argentina. The place names are coming from a dbf file. I have tried adding
> Unicode and Latin character sets such as "ñ" in the dbf entry, and
> my mapserver output didn't display the special characters, in fact the
> mapserver out was just "La Cigue"ña".   Is there a way to display
> the special characters in a mapserver?
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> I am running the mapserver version 4.0 in  Windows XP, and using JBox to
> handle the mapserver requests.
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> Thanks in advance!.
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> Giri
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