[postgis-users] Problem with the Codification/charset from Postgis to mapserver

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Emilio Ponce wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> Recently I've done a simple mapfile (mapserver) that gets a postgis 
> table and represents it. The problem is about the codification: The 
> Postgis database is coded as UTF8 and when I represent a varchar column 
> with mapserver the accents and especial characters are wrong. What can I 
> do? Can I easily change the mapserver codification?

This is probably better posted to the mapserver list. But you might try 
adding to your label block

ENCODING "UTF-8"

-Steve W