[mapserver-users] RE: character encoding shape file with german umlaute

[Jeff McKenna]

For any future readers, this is documented at 
http://mapserver.org/mapfile/labelencoding.html

-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
MapServer Consulting and Training Services
http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/





On 11-04-28 4:57 AM, karsten vennemann wrote:
> No stop.
> setting
> ENCODING 'LATIN1'
> in the label fixed it :)
> Sorry for the disturbance
> Karsten
>
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>     *From:* karsten vennemann [mailto:karsten at terragis.net]
>     *Sent:* Thursday, April 28, 2011 00:55
>     *To:* 'mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org'
>     *Subject:* character encoding shape file with german umlaute
>
>     Hi List,
>     I had some trouble with getting correct character encoding to work
>     with MapServer and with german Umlauten (ÄÜÖ and ß).
>     For a PostGIS layer I got it fixed setting thepermanent variable
>     'client encoding' to LATIN1 does the trick ;) The db otherwise is
>     utf8 , the system german locale (which has impact really anyway for
>     he most part).
>     However I have now trouble also with labels from a shape file based
>     MapServer WMS which show screwed up as some symbols . The attributes
>     are showing correctly inside the dbf table. The same layers just
>     'worked' on the old server - however something must be different on
>     the new one since that is just came up with the move. Is there
>     anything I can look for to coax MapServer to correctly encode label
>     test annotations ?
>     I tried setting
>     ENCODING 'LATIN1'
>     in the label to no avail ..
>     Cheers
>     Karsten
>
>     Terra GIS LTD
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>