[osgeo4w-dev] Encoding of file names

[Björn Höfling]

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On 01/17/2013 04:07 PM, Björn Höfling wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have a .tif + .tfw which I want to gdaltindex. The problem is
> that the filename contains a German umlaut and GDAL complains
> about:
> 
> It appears no georeferencing is available for
> 
> M?nchen.tif
> 
> ? Is a strange symbol where a u with dots should appear.
> 
> You get the same strange writing with ls command. Windows DIR
> displays the file correctly.


For the record: I could not solve the problem within the OSGeo4W
console, but at least found the following circumvention:

1. Open a normal DOS shell (cmd.exe)
2. set path:
   SET PATH=C:\OSGeo4W\bin
   (this will prevent from complaining about gdal17.dll)
3. call gdaltindex directly:
   C:\OSGeo4W\apps\gdal-17\bin\gdaltindex.exe index.shp *.tif

In this way, gdal will correctly find all files with German Umlaute.


Björn
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