[postgis-users] converting to postgis

[Paragon Corporation]

Farouk,
 
On the GUI loader (and also the -W switch of command line loader), there is a button that says -- Options
 
As shown in this article
 
http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/145-PgAdmin-III-Plug-in-Registration-PostGIS-Shapefile-and-DBF-Loader.html
 
Click it and change the UTF-8 to LATIN1  and see if that fixes your issue.
 
 
Leo
http://www.postgis.us
 


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From: postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net [mailto:postgis-users-bounces at postgis.refractions.net] On Behalf Of farouk azzouhri
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 4:33 AM
To: postgis-users at postgis.refractions.net
Subject: [postgis-users] converting to postgis


Hello,
I converted an Access database (contains two fields X and Y) in a .shp file it's ok, but when I wanted to convert the .shp into a postgis database ( using the shp2pgsql-gui.exe ) it gives me the following message:

Unable to convert field name to UTF-8 (iconv reports "Illegal byte sequence"). Current encoding is "UTF-8". Try "latin1 " (Western European), One Of The gold values ​​at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/multibyte.html Described.
Shapefile import failed.

how I'm going to do ??

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