[mapserver-users] character encoding

[Armin Burger]

QGIS has quite nice possibilities to select the encoding when opening 
and writing the various supported vector data formats (including e.g. 
shape and KML).

armin

On 07/09/2011 17:59, Chris Jackson wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am having some issues with special characters in my application (sure
> I am not the first!) and wondered what the best way is to 'clean up' the
> data so I know it is specifically in a given format say UTF-8 or ISO. My
> source data was from KML -> shp using ArcGIS 10 (though who knows what
> the kml format was!).  One would assume if using ArcMap on a UK machine
> would give you an ISO output....  Should I copy the characters back into
> the attribute table via ArcGIS (but what program should I use to copy
> the characters from - Word...).  I did use the ArcGIS export registry
> setting to export my supposed ISO shapfile to UTF-8 format (but the
> label rendering is wrong).  Any ideas would be much appreciated!
>
> Many thanks
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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