Java Mapscript with Japanese Encoding

[Mario Basa]

Hello Umberto,

As always, thanks for the quick reply.

Unfortunately, even if I change both LANG and LC_ALL to Shift_JIS,
layer.getAttributes still can not get a match. It is only when the
shapefile is in UTF-8 and when the tomcat environment is also in UTF-8
can a match be found.

I have a funny feeling that the query value is always converted to
UTF-8 first before doing a search. Just a hunch though.

Thanks.

mario.


On 8/30/06, Umberto Nicoletti <umberto.nicoletti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mario,
> Java mapscript should support international charsets, only make sure
> that the environment when you start tomcat (or the servlet container
> of your choice) is configured with the wanted locale.
> Also note that LANG has lower precedence than the LC_* variables and
> in particular check LC_ALL. For example if you set LANG=it_IT and
> LC_ALL=en_US then the setting in effect is en_US.
>
> There is an example using the german charset in the examples directory.
>
> HTH,
> Umberto
>
> On 8/29/06, Mario Basa <mario.basa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have been testing the java mapscript of mapserver-4.10-beta1 and it
> > seems that layer.queryByAttributes  only works with UTF-8 character
> > encoded shape files and only if tomcat is started also in UTF-8
> > (ja_JP.UTF-8) LANG environment.
> >
> > I tried using Shift_JIS encoded shape files (99% of all shape files
> > here in Japan are Shift_JIS encoded) and tomcat restarted in  UTF-8
> > and then Shift_JIS LANG environments, but I couldn't get it to work
> > anymore, as in layer.queryByAttributes can not match query items
> > anymore with the data.
> >
> > Is there a work-around for this.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Mario.
> >
>