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

[Peter Hopfgartner]

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.
>
> P.
>
>   
I had a look if it was quick deal to upgrade to current shapelib. I 
copied dbfopen.c, shpopen.c and shapefil.h from a currrent the shapelib 
checkout. Unfortunatly, it seems to me that date handling has 
disappeared from shapelib. At least FTDate is not defined anymore and in 
DBFOpen no 'D' is assigned as field type.

Am I missing something obvious here?

Regards,

Peter
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Peter Hopfgartner
> <peter.hopfgartner at r3-gis.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> Looking into the sources of shp2pgsql, [0], it seems that the loader assumes
>> that the encoding of the dbf file is  "WINDOWS-1252", if not specified
>> differently by the -W command line option.
>>
>> From [1], shape files carry some information about their encoding, either in
>> the dbf file header at byte position 29, [2], or in a separate file with
>> extension CPG.
>>
>> Would it make sense to change the default behaviour of shp2pgsql into:
>>
>> 1) try to get file encoding from dbf file or cpg file
>> 2) if 1) fails, take WINDOWS-1252 as default
>> 3) if -W is given, take this option
>>
>> And then, is the information about the encoding set by pgsql2shp? It would
>> be smooth, if shapes generated by pgsql2shp could be imported by shp2pgsql
>> without specifying any encoding during import ("just works").
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> [0] http://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/browser/trunk/loader/
>> [1]
>> http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=knowledgebase.techArticles.articleShow&d=21106
>> [2] http://www.dbase.com/knowledgebase/int/db7_file_fmt.htm
>>
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