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

[Maher Karim]

Hello,
You have an error in this sentence, you should use it like this

ALTER DATABASE DBIPRS SET client_encoding=latin2;

Regards
Maher



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I tried this way :

ALTER DATABASE DBIPRS SET PGCLIENTENCODING to 'Latin2'

but i got the error:

ERROR: unrecognized configuration parameter "pgclientencoding"
SQL state: 42704


> Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:37:37 +0200
> From: sdteffen at gmail.com
> To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
> Subject: Re: [postgis-users] Postgis to ESRI shape file encoding problem
>
> You can also try to set the environment variable PGCLIENTENCODING to the
> encoding value you need (e.g. LATIN2).
>
> Steffen
>
> >> 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).
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