[postgis-users] shape to postgis inporter fails or crashes

[Paul Ramsey]

Just use the -w switch to specify WINDOWS-1252 as your encoding.
Should work fine from there.

P.

BTW, it shouldn't crash, it should just stop and show the error. Is
that what it is doing, or do you get honest-to-god coredumps?

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Clay, Bruce <bclay at ball.com> wrote:
> I am trying to load OpenStreetMap and GDAM data from the shapefiles that
> were posted on the network.  Some of the work file but those with special
> characters often fail or in came cases the application crashes.
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> The error message  get is -  Unable to convert field value "<some osm name>"
> to UTF-8: iconv reports "Illegal byte sequence"
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> DBF file character encoding is set to WINDOWS-1252 which if I am reading
> correctly should support Unicode characters.
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> Based on comments posted on the net I also tried setting encoding to
> “Latin1”
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> Any thoughts on how to correct this problem would be greatly appreciated.
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> I am using PostgreSql version 8.8 and PostGis 1.5.1
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> Bruce
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