[postgis-users] pgsql2shp dbf file encoding

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Denis Rykov wrote:

> Try to export postgis data to shapefiles with pgsql2shp 
> (pgsql2shp-core.h 5870 2010-08-28 09:16:32Z mcayland)
> If open *.dbf file I see the value in my dbf files at byte 29 is 0x57h. 
> Is the 0x57h value is default? Why not 0x00h?
> With 0x57h encoding my shapefiles looks not correct in any GIS software.

I don't think it's currently set to anything, so I guess this would be 
the default? Perhaps we should provide a mapping from PostgreSQL 
database encoding names to shapefile encoding values in a table somewhere?

Anyone know which encoding 0x57h represents?


ATB,

Mark.

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