[postgis-users] shp2pgsql and multibyte shape files

[Jorg Heymans]

strk at refractions.net wrote:
> For multibyte support you should set the USE_ICONV
> variable in Makefile.config (or in the environment).
> Then in the loader/ directory:
> make clean; make
> 
> If everything goes ok you should have a new -W switch with
> which specifying source encoding.
> 

Yup that did the trick, thanks !

Is this mentioned on the website somewhere ? It might be worthwhile to
add it a note about USE_ICONV to
http://postgis.refractions.net/docs/ch02.html#id2509693


Regards
Jorg