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" <pram...@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 <dhee...@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> postgis-users mailing list >> postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net >> http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users >> >> >_______________________________________________ >postgis-users mailing list >postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net >http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users _______________________________________________ postgis-users mailing list postgis-users@postgis.refractions.net http://postgis.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/postgis-users
