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

[Paul Ramsey]

Except, to my knowledge, the OSM files are UTF8 encoded, so I'm
surprised you are getting troubles loading them as UTF8.

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> The error message  get is -  Unable to convert field value "<some osm name>"
>> to UTF-8: iconv reports "Illegal byte sequence"
>>
>>
>>
>> DBF file character encoding is set to WINDOWS-1252 which if I am reading
>> correctly should support Unicode characters.
>>
>>
>>
>> Based on comments posted on the net I also tried setting encoding to
>> “Latin1”
>>
>> Any thoughts on how to correct this problem would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am using PostgreSql version 8.8 and PostGis 1.5.1
>>
>>
>>
>> Bruce
>>
>>
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