[mapserver-users] Confirmation of status of UTF8 support, and where transcoding to Latin-1 may be happening.

[Russell McOrmond]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Russell McOrmond wrote:

>  I have a customer that is using MapServer, talking through ArcSDE to an 
> Oracle database.

   Chris Whitteker is working on the same project, and I would like to 
apologize for duplicating the question.

   Howard Butler replied to Chris and suggested that the transcoding from 
UTF-8 to Latin-1 is most likely happening within ArcSDE.  We have some 
peole here that are experts on SDE, but want to avoid the finger-pointing 
(IE: They say the problem is in mapserver, and this list suggests the 
problem is in SDE).

   Can I get a quick confirmation that Mapserver supports UTF8 encoding, 
and doesn't internally transcode to Latin-1?  Does it have the option to 
transcode that we might have inadvertantly enabled?  This would help us 
know that we should focus our investigation on the settings of SDE and not 
settings within mapserver.

   Howard Butler then asked "Do you know what the SOIL_ORDER_NAME_FR column 
type is defined as?"

   Are you asking how the table is defined in the Oracle Database (Answer: 
UTF8, confirmed by our database folks), or how it is defined elsewhere in 
configuration for SDE or mapserver?

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