I solved this by changing the encoding in the line in the tutorial for
world/load.py from this ...
#lm = LayerMapping(WorldBorder, world_shp, world_mapping,
# transform=False, encoding='iso-8859-1')
To the following ...
lm = LayerMapping(WorldBorder, world_shp, world_mapping,
transform=False, encoding='utf8')
As I am a python, django, and geodjango, I am not sure if that is a good
workaround or not.
But it did load the name (Åland Islands) into the table correctly.
Ron
On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 5:21:12 AM UTC-6, Matias Burak wrote:
>
> Hi, I was trying to go through the GeoDjango tutorial and when I try to
> import data with LayerMapping I'm getting the following error:
>
> Warning: Incorrect string value: '\xC2\x85land...' for column 'name'
> at row 1
>
> I'm using MySQL and my charset and collation are set to latin1 (I also
> tried utf8).
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Matias.
>
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