[postgis-users] Error in importing shape files to the PostGISdatabase

[Obe, Regina]

Use the -W latin1 switch in shp2pgsql and see if that fixes it.
 
the latin1 should be the encoding of your file, but latin1 always seems
to work for my datasets anyway.
 
Hope that helps,
Regina

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Marcello Brunaldi
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 8:59 AM
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Subject: [postgis-users] Error in importing shape files to the
PostGISdatabase


Hello everyone
I have the shape file format utm32 and I have to import them into my
database PostGIS ,
with this command : shp2pgsql -s 23032 point.shp point | psql postgis 
Some of these files during import have caused the error :
invalid byte sequence for encoding utf 8 0xe02076
this error can also happen if the byte sequence does not match the
encoding expected by the server, which is controlled by "client
encoding"

My database is enconding UTF8.



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