[mapserver-users] how does mapserver determine shapefile encoding?

[Daniel Morissette]

On 11-08-02 03:45 PM, Lars Lingner wrote:
>
> Finally my (odd) questions are: Why does MapServer do everything right?
> How is the encoding determined? Can I see somewhere which encoding is
> used by MapServer?
>

MapServer has no way to tell the encoding of a shapefile. However it can 
usually deal with data in either UTF-8 or in the native encoding of your 
TTF font without specifying any encoding in the LABEL. In those cases, 
it does not try to figure the encoding, it just lets the bytes go 
straight through without looking at them (and TrueType does the rest).

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Daniel Morissette
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Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000