Hi, If I try to load a Latin1 Shape to my UTF-8 database there is no Problem to convert the encoding: shp2pgsql -d -s 31466 -W Latin1 -I myshape mytable | psql -U postgres -d mydb But if I want to export with pgsql2shp there is no flag to convert the encoding from utf-8 to latin1 With ogr2ogr I have the same problem. Any idea? Greetings Jo