[mapserver-users] label encoding problem

[Thomas Bonfort]

"name" is a reserved keyword in mapserver mapfiles, you should use
LABELITEM "NAME"
instead of
LABELITEM NAME

regards,

thomas

www.camptocamp.com
+33 5 16 57 01 02



On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 14:33, 王连波 <happyforev1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I use mapserver5.4.0 on FreeBSD Release7.1. In my mapfile I get data from
> postgis database whose encoding is EUC_CN, and my label part go as follows:
>      labelitem name
>      CLASS
>         NAME    xzqj_x
>         STYLE
>         color         255 255 255
>         END
>         outlinecolor 0 0 0
>         label
>         COLOR 0 0 0
> #        SHADOWCOLOR 0 218 218
> #        SHADOWSIZE 1 1
>         TYPE truetype
>         encoding GB2312
>         font simsun
>         MINSIZE 11
>         MAXSIZE 256
> #       size   8
>         POSITION auto
> #        PARTIALS FALSE
> #        MINDISTANCE 30
>         BUFFER 4
>         END # end of label
> however, when I run
> http://localhost/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/..../....map&layer=xzqj_x&mode=map, it
> gives the error:
> getString(): Symbol definition error. Parsing error near (name):(line 46).
> when I changed labelitem name(Chinese character) to labelitem ename(English)
> , everything goes well. I know the problem comes from encoding, but I do not
> know how to resolve it , I am confused about the encodings. Any help are
> appreciated.
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