[postgis-users] pgsql2shp dbf file encoding

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Denis Rykov wrote:

> I don't quite understand why pgsql2shp is writing this encoding to our 
> shapes, our database is in UTF-8 and we never use win1252

Well pgsql2shp has never contained any code to set the encoding field 
(mainly because until recently the version of shapelib included with 
PostGIS didn't support the encoding field), so I guess WIN1252 must be 
the shapelib default.


ATB,

Mark.

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