[mapserver-users] GetfeatureInfo-Request in an UTF-8 environment with shapfile in cp-1252

Tue Feb 8 09:48:49 EST 2011

Hello,

A quick thought that I had when I read your issue, is that I recently 
came across a similar issue when I was working with Japanese data.  In 
that case for MapServer to display query results in my template 
properly, I had to change the character set in the HTML template file, 
otherwise the characters would be garbled:

<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Shift_JIS">
<title>照会</title>
...

I'm not sure if that is related to your exact issue, but those are my 
quick thoughts.

-jeff

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

On 11-02-08 10:37 AM, Siegel Andreas wrote:
> Hi.
> Our mapserver-eniromnent entirely works in utf-8 (mapfiles, webserver,
> postgres, ..) with one exception, that is, all of our shapefiles.
> The shapfiles are created/updated in an Windows-environment by several,
> external contributors.
> Hence they are encoded in Wiindows-ANSI (cp: 1252).
> If i do an GetFeatureInfo-Request on the attibutes of the shapefiles all
> special characters ("umlauts") are garbled.
> This is no wonder since the content of the shapefile-attributes must be
> recoded to utf-8 prior to insertion in the template.html.
> How can this be acomplished? I could not find anything useful in the
> documentation or with google.
> *Mag Andreas Siegel*