[postgis-users] re: shp2sql and UTF8 question on Windows

[strk at refractions.net]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 02:52:29PM +0100, Markus Schaber wrote:
> Hi, all,
> 
> Markus Schaber wrote:
> 
> > Maybe we should add an "send client_encoding" command switch (that is
> > mutually exclusive with -W) to shp2pgsql. I'll have a look into this.
> 
> I attached a small patch that adds this -e option, as well as some
> documenation sync between the manpage and xml/html for -W.
> 
> It compiles, but is not exactly heavily tested, so take it with some salt.
> 
> This is a new feature, but as it is relatively unintrusive and not in
> the PostGIS core, I think we can apply it to 1.1.X without waiting for
> the 1.2 branch (after some testing, of course). Strk, what do you think?

What's the problem with iconv again ?
--strk;