[postgis-users] shp2pgsql and multibyte shape files

[strk at refractions.net]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 10:14:59AM +0200, Jorg Heymans wrote:
> 
> 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

Documentation contributions are welcome.
--strk;