[postgis-users] problem with pgsql2shp and special characters/umlaute

[Steffen Macke]

> For the MSDOS / Windows command promt, there are commands to manipulate
> the environment variables, and you can edit them the system profile.

On the Windows commandline:

set PGCLIENTENCODING=LATIN1

Setting of PGCLIENTENCODING through the Windows control panel is only
recommended if you are only dealing with one encoding.

Regards,

Steffen