[postgis-users] shp2pgsql UTF-8 Encoding Problem

[Mateusz Loskot]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> The list of encodings is here:
> 
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/multibyte.html
> 
> What you want to provide in -W is not the database encoding (that's
> already known) but rather the encoding of the strings in your DBF file.
> If it's a European language, probably the encoding you want is LATIN1.

or LATIN2 for Eastern European language :-)

Cheers
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Mateusz Loskot
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