[postgis-users] Postgis to ESRI shape file encoding problem

[Gabriel Messner]

Try pgsql2shp option:

-W sq-iso-8859-1

2008/7/18 Ervin Ramonllari <ervin.ramonllari at hotmail.com>:

> In Albanian, there are 4 special characters.
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> Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:33:55 +0200
> From: gabmessner at gmail.com
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Postgis to ESRI shape file encoding problem
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> In wich language are data?
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> 2008/7/18 Ervin Ramonllari <ervin.ramonllari at hotmail.com>:
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>   Hello everybody,
>
> I'm trying to export some data from a Postgresql database encoded in UTF-8
> into some ESRI shape files.
> I'm using PostGIS Dumper (pgsql2shp).
>
> the export is done correctly, but some special characters could not be
> exported properly. I guess it's a problem of encoding but I can't figure out
> how to deal with it.
>
> I googled around but couldn't find something useful.
>
> Any help for solving my problem would be highly appreciated,
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> Ervin.
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