[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #689: NaturalEarth Character Encodings
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Fri Jul 26 12:53:06 PDT 2013
#689: NaturalEarth Character Encodings
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Reporter: darkblueb | Owner: darkblueb
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: OSGeoLive7.0
Component: LiveDVD | Keywords: 7.0, natural earth, upstream
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Comment(by darkblueb):
This issue primarily effects the "admin 1" layer in Natural Earth
(generally equivalent to political state or province). I have received a
working copy of the next revision of NaturalEarth admin1 in the form of a
shapefile, whose .cpg file identifies it as encoded in '''UTF-8'''. Tools
such as gdal/ogr correctly recognize this code page directly from the
shapefile.
A text field called '''name_local''' contains many admin1 titles in local
script. The newer working table performs substantially better on Live 7.
(note that greek and russian glyphs are what I would call "basic"
international characters, with arabic and thai in a similar class, but
found more rarely on machines in the West. All four of these work
correctly right now on the Live.)
One path forward is to replace the current admin1 table completely with
the in-progress one I have now.. There are 42 fields in the current
admin1, and 20 more than that in the new working copy, including temporary
fields meant for development. The shipping admin1 has those kinds of
development fields in it, also. It is unclear who or what may depend on
the exact contents of the admin1 fields.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/689#comment:18>
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