[postgis-users] Client encoding error

[Milo van der Linden]

PostGIS is in UTF-8, the table is in WindowsLatin1. How do I change the
encoding? Is it just a matter of editting the tab file and changing the
string WindowsLatin1 with UTF-8?
Tomas Lanczos schreef:
> Milo van der Linden wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I am trying to import a MapInfo table into postGIS using ogr2ogr. The
>> import fails with the message: invalid byte sequence for encoding
>> "UTF8": 0xe92057
>>
>> It gives me a hint that I sould set something into client_encoding, but
>> is this ogr2ogr related or postGIS?
>
> I had the same problem few days ago (importing shapefiles to GRASS
> with postgresql). Change the encoding in the attribute tables to UTF-8
> before importing, it helps. It's related to the given encoding of the
> PostgreSQL/Postgis database where are You importing Your table.
>
> Regards
>
> Tomas
>


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