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

[sulu]

Hi Daniel.



Daniel Morissette wrote:
> 
> The short answer is that there is no mechanism in MapServer at the 
> moment to convert encoding of attributes displayed in a query template, 
> so your only options are to either change the encoding of the data files 
> to UTF-8, or change the template.html and its header to match the 
> encoding of the data. (The only place where MapServer supports encoding 
> conversion at the moment is in map labels, see the ENCODING keyword in 
> the LABEL docs.)
> 
> Of course this could be a nice enhancement to MapServer if there was a 
> group interested in funding it.
> 

Yeah. I thought so myself.
It would be a nice enhancement. One just have to think of some heterogeneous
data-source, with different encodings, which feed a single map.

Can you give some crude guess what amount of funding this feature would
require?

Cheers
Andy


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