wfs server and encoding

[Milo van der Linden]

I ran in to exactly the same problem, getting the data in UTF-8 was an
absolute " must"  in order to get the labels to show up right in a Flash
GIS client.

After searching the internet and contacting some technicians at MapInfo
UK, I found that the only solution was to create a postGIS database in
UTF-8 format; read the MapInfo data into the postGIS database with OGR
and correcting encoding errors by hand....


On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 14:54 -0400, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Eric Lemoine wrote:
> > 
> > I have some data that is served by MapServer WFS. This data is stored
> > in MapInfo MAP TAB files and is encoded in ISO-8859-1. I'd like
> > MapServer WFS to generate an UTF-8 encoded GML file. I tried to use
> > "wfs_encoding" "UTF-8" in my mapfile but it looks like MapServer just
> > changes the <xml> encoding attribute without actually converting the
> > data (from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8). Is there a way to ask MapServer to
> > actually perform that data conversion?
> > 
> 
> You're right that "wfs_encoding" only sets the XML header and does not 
> do any conversion of the attribute values. There is currently no way to 
> ask MapServer to automatially convert from one encoding to the other 
> when outputting GML.
> 
> The only place where encoding conversions are currently supported is in 
> rendering of labels on a map if you specify the LABEL ENCODING parameter.
> 
> Daniel