[postgis-users] pgsql2shp dbf file encoding

[Francis Markham]

0x57h is the dreaded Windows-1252 codepage.  I believe new versions of
shapelib allow this to be set when the shapefile is created.

Cheers,

Francis Markham


On 25 October 2010 20:05, Mark Cave-Ayland
<mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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