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

[Markus Schaber]

Hi, Strk,

strk at refractions.net 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 ?

Nothing particular.

But we regularly get mails here on the lists from users that don't have
an iconv-enabled build for one or another reason. And as long as
building with iconv is optional, this light-weight alternative might
make sense.

Markus

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