[mapserver-users] Font encoding

[Dejan Gambin]

Hi,

I usually use some hex editor to find out the real encoding of dbf files. I look for special characters and identify the encoding somehow...

regards, dejan
On 20. ruj. 2010., at 17:16, Bennos wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I want to display labels of attributes of my shapefile which i exported from
> ArcMap 9.3. These attributes have special characters like Š, Č and Ž which
> are part of every Latin1 or ISO-8859-2 encoded font. The problem is, that
> mapserver doesnt show the right characters but something like [?]. The funny
> thing is, that I also use other special characters, like Ç, which are
> generated without problem.
> In the mapfile I allready tried different encodings, even when i change the
> encoding of the font there is no difference. I tried to use different fonts,
> too. Maybe the problem is that i generated the shapefile on WinXP and the
> Mapserver runs on UNIX? Another thing i would like to check is the encoding
> of the shapefile, but i have no idea how to do this, anyone else? 
> I really have tried a lot and I hope someone of you can help me.
> 
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
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