[postgis-users] Determining file's bit encoding

[Paul Ramsey]

You don't need iconv, you can use the -W flag in shp2pgsql:

shp2pgsql -W LATIN1 -s 4366 -D foo.shp foo

If you're in a western country, your encoding is likely either LATIN1
or WIN1252 (they are almost identical, the WIN one has some Windows
special characters in it).

Here's the list of possibilities:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/multibyte.html

P.

On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 12:05 PM, paul919 <nrpaul at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to import data into a PostGIS database that is using the UTF8
> bit encoding.  However several of the .shp files that i am importing have a
> different bit encoding and it will not let me import the data into PostGIS
> unless the bit encodings are the same.  First question, is there anyway
> around this?
>
> If not, I can use the linux iconv utility to convert the files to the
> correct UTF8 bit encoding, however i need to know what the current encoding
> is on the files.  Second question, how do i determine the bit encoding on a
> file?
>
> Thank you in advance for you help.
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