[postgis-users] Encoding error on shp2pgsql

[Dheeraj Chand]

Paul,

It seems I was misreading the error. I thought that what I was reading was
saying that my template was built incorrectly, and was supposed to have
the LATIN1 encoding. Sorry for wasting the list's time.

Dheeraj

On 1/6/11 7:06 PM, "Paul Ramsey" <pramsey at opengeo.org> wrote:

>Your shapefile attributes have hibit characters in them. As the error
>message states, you might want to try a LATIN1 encoding (if your data
>are western european) or perhaps another more appropriate encoding
>(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/multibyte.html) if they are
>not.
>
>P
>
>On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Dheeraj Chand <dheeraj at dheerajchand.com>
>wrote:
>> Hello, all!
>> First post, and it's a repeat of a question I was asking in the IRC
>>channel.
>> I'm having some trouble with shp2pgsql. I installed PostGIS 1.5.2 from
>> source, on PostgreSQL 9.0.2, from source, and I think that I must have
>>done
>> something incorrectly, because when I try to load a shapefile into a
>> database created according to the PostGIS template, I get an encoding
>> error.  I realise that the term output here is long, but would someone
>>mind
>> taking a look at it and confirming that I did this
>> correctly? http://dheerajchand.pastebin.com/YaHt3kAp
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -dx
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