[postgis-users] Read file encoding from from shape file

[Frank Warmerdam]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> I was never certain that ESRI software actually respected the DBF code
> page flags, but your reference indicates they do, so this seems
> reasonable. Some investigation of the current state of shapelib WRT
> encoding would be wise, as I think we should update our shapelib to
> the current version when we release 2.0.

Paul,

Encodings have not yet been addressed in shapelib or OGR but this is
something for which pressure is growing.

Best regards,
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