[postgis-users] Tools to change the encoding of the SHP/DBF files (from Latin1 to UTF-8)

[Lee Hachadoorian]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:39 PM, Mac Wind <macwind2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Sandro. Thank you very much for your answer.
>
> With that parameter (-W), am I changing the encoding of the DB or I am
> merely indicating the encoding of the source?
>
> Regards.

The latter. I don't think it's possible to change the server encoding
once the database is created. This switch has the same effect as

SET client_encoding = 'LATIN1';

--Lee